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T HE purpose of this map is to show the excellent location of Saint Cloud with reference to rail and water 
transportation, putting it in easy and direct touch with all parts of the country, and to call special at¬ 
tention to the vast territory west of the red line which divides the country mid-way between Saint 
Cloud and Detroit, disclosing the interesting fact that practically two-thirds of the area of the United States 
is nearer and more accessible to Saint Cloud and the Pan Motor Company than to any automobile manu¬ 
facturing center in the East. Figures carefully compiled show that the plant of the Pan Motor Company is 
located in the heart of the greatest automobile consuming district in the nation, there being more cars to 
the population in Minnesota and the states nearby than in any other section of the United States. In 
the territory west of the red line there are o]/ 2 automobiles to every 100 people, while in that east of the red line 
there are only Sy 2 to every 100 people. There are about 21,000 more miles of national, state and county roads 


west of the red line than there are east of it. The per capita wealth west of the red line is 82,470.00 as against 
$1,542.00 east of it. The average farm west of the red line is about three times as large as the average farm 
cast of it. The value of crops west of the red line in 1917 was SO,346,123,000.00 while that of live stock for the 
same year was $3,937,000,000.00. In other words, the country west of the red line is the biggest, best and 
richest automobile, truck and tractor territory in the world at the present time and is getting better faster 
than any other similar district on the globe. Pan is at the door—on the very threshold—of this great and 
growing, progressive and wealthy West—the choicest market in the world, now and for years to come. The 
West, already the best, is improving faster than the rest, so far as the automobile industry is concerned and 
Pan will be in capacity production when the business reaches its highest level. The location and the situa¬ 
tion could not well be more fortunate. 


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MINNESOTA-RICH IN RESOURCES 


T HE above topographical map graphically emphasizes the location of the Pan Motor 
Company and its proximity to some of the state’s important sources of power, mate¬ 
rial and supplies; and the railroad and waterway transportation facilities available. 
Reference to the key numbers and letters on the sketch and their explanation below will 
furnish several of the reasons why Saint Cloud, Minnesota, was chosen as the location 
for the ^iant industrial undertaking launched by the Pan Motor Company. 

Arrows numbered 1 to 6 inclusive, indicate respectively: Great Lakes Route to Atlantic 
Seaboard and inland cities of the East; railroads to East and southeast territory; rail¬ 
road and Mississippi river routes to the South and Gulf; railroads to the great Southwest; 
transcontinental routes to the Pacific Coast and the great Northwest; routes into the virgin 
Canadian territory. It will be noted that rail and waterways radiate to practically every 
point of the compass and that Saint Cloud is either in direct connection or within easy 
distance of direct connection with the markets of the world. 

A—The big plant of the Minnesota Steel Company at Duluth, a subsidiary of the United 
States Steel Corporation, and said to have cost over $25,000,000.00, is less than 
150 miles northeast of Saint Cloud. 


B—The Virginia and Rainy Lake Company plant at Virginia is the largest white pine 
lumber plant in the world. The pine forests of the northern part of the state 
and Canada supply this mill. Some of the finest hardwood timber in the country 
is supplied from the Minnesota belt. 

C—The Vermillion Range, the northernmost ore district of the state, and one of its oldest. 

D—The Missabe Range where at Ilibbing is located the biggest open pit iron ore mine in 
the world, the Shenango. 

E—The Cuyuna Range is the latest of the ore bodies to be developed and millions of tons 
of the best grade of manganese ore are available here. It is within 60 miles of Saint 
Cloud. 

F—A great amount of water power is available along the Mississippi within short distance 
of the City and at Saint Cloud itself. 

G—The greatest wheat raising district in the country—the Red River Valley. 

H—The Head of Navigation on the Mississippi River is at Minneapolis within 65 miles of 
Saint Cloud. 


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All buildings shown here are either already completed and in use or in some stage of construction. The principal 
purpose of this reproduction is to show the relative size and location of each unit of the Forge Department when 
all are completed. Compare this with the reproductions of the actual photographs appearing on other pages. 




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N the job day and night; at his desk, with his coat off, 



doing the thousand and one things necessary to be done 
with speed and alacrity; facing his labors and the future quietly 
and cheerfully, knowing full well that constant, intelligent effort is 
the price that must be paid for success, Samuel Conner Pandolfo 
has in a little more than a year made one of the most remarkable 
individual industrial showings recorded in history 


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Copyright 1918 
By 

Pan Motor Company 

Saint Cloud, Minnesota 
All Rights Reserved 




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PURPOSE OF BOOR 


T HIS volume has a purpose and that purpose is to tell the plain, unvarnished truth about the Pan 
Motor Company. It has been the earnest effort of those who have gathered and prepared for 
publication the information contained in the following pages to anticipate and answer fully and 
in detail any question that may come to the mind of the reader regarding not alone the company itself, 
but the city and state in which it is located. It is believed that all statements are correct and is hoped 
that nothing has been overlooked. 

The story of Saint Cloud is a comprehensive and interesting one. Much valuable data relating 
to Stearns county and Minnesota are given. The advantages of the location are pointed out and proven 
in a most conclusive manner. No attempt has been made to overstate the facts, and as for the illustra¬ 
tions, they were made from actual photographs. The camera, having a reputation for honesty, may be 
regarded as absolutely reliable. 

Pan-Town-On-The-Mississippi is a wonderfully developed yearling and furnishes a rich and delight¬ 
ful subject for both writer and photographer. It is one of the necessary adjuncts of the great Pan 
enterprise and bespeaks the broad, keen vision of the efficient Pan management. 

In dealing with the Pan Motor Company there has been one central and governing thought—to 
tell the story as it is—to open to plain view its past and present and, in so far as it is humanly pos¬ 
sible, to lift the veil of the future. In doing this, great care has been exercised in avoiding the unrea¬ 
sonable and impractical. Consequently nothing is contained herein that is not history or good sense. 

How the idea of the Pan Motor Company was first conceived and took form in the fertile brain 
of its founder, S. C. Pandolfo, is related in detail and the entire story of achievement, from the day 
of its birth to the present moment, is set forth in plain English. The great plant as it now stands is 
minutely described in word and picture. 

The personnel of the company is dealt with in an exhaustive manner, giving the reader full in¬ 
formation relative to the men back of the enterprise, who and what they are and what they stand for 
in the business, financial and industrial world, from the president down. 




























It is the true history of a young industrial ^iant, advancing with great, firm strides, knowing its 
own power and confident in its ability to achieve the end for which it was created. The man who can 
go studiously through these pa^es and who, when he has finished, is not moved by the marvelous accom¬ 
plishment so clearly and positively indicated is indeed strangely constituted. 

It should be remembered that considerable time is required in compiling a work of this character 
and that owing to the rapid growth of the plant many of the illustrations are already out of date. This 
situation cannot be avoided with an enterprise that has attained the remarkable speed of the Pan Motor 
Company and the reader can safely go on the assumption that many changes and improvements have 
taken place and will take place since this book was started and before it reaches the public. Every day 
Pan makes a bigger and better showing. Every working hour tells a new story. But we can’t photo¬ 
graph the future. If we could this volume would be several times its present size. 

Bewitching as fiction and as stern and accurate as mathematics is this wonderful tale of Pan. May 
the following pages do it justice. 

—B. F. Forsyth 

Saint Cloud, Minn. C. W. Williams 

October 15, 1918 Compilers 


ATTENTION is called to the fact that, although the greatest care has been exercised by the authors, 
-l-L in the compilation of this comprehensive volume, to make it an accurate, errorless, true-to-fact 
story of the history and achievements of this company from its inception to the time the copy was 
placed in the hands of the printer, the officers of the Pan Motor Company assume no responsibility or 
liability for any errors, inaccuracies or misstatements of fact which may occur in this printed book. 



















CONTENTS 

SAMUEL CONNER PANDOLFO—The Man Behind - 

PURPOSE OF THE BOOK. 

PROLOGUE—“To the Glory of Allah” ... - 

HISTORICAL SKETCH. 

AN INVITATION. 

SAINT CLOUD—The Home of the Pan .... 
Minnesota’s Resources—Chart B - 
Transportation Facilities—Chart A 

PRODUCTION 

The Building of a Motor Car - 

Assembling the Model 250 - 

Painting the Model 250 - 

Pattern Making ------- 

Dependable Power a Foundation Stone - 
The Pan Drop For^e Plant - 

How Drop Forgings are Made - - - - 

Heat Treating the Forging - 

BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT 

Experimental Engineering Building - 

Blacksmith Shop - 

Main Production Unit—Factory No. 2 - 

Loading Platform ------- 

Warehouse -------- 

Main Power Plant ------- 

Pump House ------- 

Water Tower -------- 

Die Shop -------- 

Heat Treating Plant ------ 


Frontispiece 

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22 

Cover Pocket 
Cover Pocket 

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BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT—Continued 

Laboratory Building --------- 

Oil Storage Building --------- 

Drop Forge Office Building -------- 

Drop For^e Power Plant --------- 

Hammer Shop - -- -- -- -- - 

List of Additional Machinery Ordered ------ 

“A Sermon In Bricks” - -- -- -- - 

Property Plat ----------- 

Ground Plans - -- -- -- -- - 

Quantities of Construction Materials Used ------ 

Perspective and Ground Plan—Drop For^e Group—Chart C - - 

Perspective and Ground Plan—Engineering, Production and Power Group 
—Chart D - -- -- -- -- - 


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152 

153-157 

158 

Cover Pocket 
Cover Pocket 


PAN—Feature Car of the Future --------- - 163 

Brief Specifications ---------- - 174 

Proving the Power of Pan - -- -- -- -- - 177 

ADMINISTRATION.1S5 

Board of Directors ---------- - 187 

Executive Department - -- -- -- -- -- 194 

Engineering and Manufacturing Corps ------- 198 

General Offices ----------- - 215 

PAN-TOWN-ON-TIIE-MISSISSIPPI.231 

Plat of Pan Addition -------- - 235 

Motor Hotel - -- -- -- -- -- - 254 


PEACE.255 

FUTURE PLANS.257 

Lifting the Veil of the Future - 259 

Plans, Purposes and Objects for Which the Pan Motor Company was Organized 263 
THE PROMOTOR.265 


















PROLOGUE 

T HERE was a certain citizen of Bagdad who was minded to build a minaret to the glory of Allah. 
It was to be taller than any other in the realm and was to have a window facing Mecca far up 
on its side where the Muezzin could stand and call the faithful to prayer. He considered the 
matter a long time and when his mind was fully made up, told his fellow townsmen of his intention. 

At first they gazed upon him in amazement as he explained how this minaret was to be built. 
Some looked at one another pityingly and pointed at their foreheads. Others argued with him vehe¬ 
mently that the time was wrong—that the drouth had killed all the vines so that there would be no 
wine and the flocks were without grass, that there was nothing to sell to get the gold with which 
to pay the workmen, and besides they were at war with the infidels who were even then beating 
at the gates. 

When he still persisted in his plan they went about among the people and cried out that this fel¬ 
low was a thief and would steal a part of the money they gave to the glory of Allah. 

Still the man went on proclaiming his faith in his undertaking, in spite of all that was said 
against him. 

Then there arose a sound of many blows—even as strong men beating clamorous anvils, and of mocking, until the 
land was full of the sound of it. And a great company of knockers stood about saying that it could not be done, that no 
man could be found foolish enough to give gold for such a crazy thing. Others hailed him and his workers before the 
Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid and bore witness against them that they were thieves and fools. The Caliph found no guile in 
them and in fact, praised them for their piety and wisdom. 

Suddenly the hammer brigade was sore confounded. The uproar they made saying that the thing could not be 
done was overwhelmed by the noise of the builders doing it. Hig$h above every other near it the new minaret to the 
glory of Allah (of whom there is but one) stretched up, and the unbelieving doj§s outside the gate gazed at it astonished. 

Then the defenders perceived that the minaret was so hi^h that from its top they could cast fire and stones 
down upon the infidels who besieged them, and quickly did so, driving them away in dire confusion. 

Then the knockers’ brigade and the anvil chorus all shouted for joy with the rest and sought to shake the hand 
of this citizen and said they had believed in him all along. 

But the man was so busy finishing the minaret that he did the same as he had before—he paid no attention to 
them or what they said. 






















































































HISTORICAL SKETCH 


S AMUEL CONNOR PANDOLFO is a superior man. In brain power, in will power, in energy, in 
foresight, in magnetism, in courage and in resourcefulness he has few superiors in the world of 
finance and industry; and yet he is a man of and for the people. His life has been a busy one 
and his labors have been of such a character as to bring him in touch with the rank and file, with the 
working man, with the mechanic, with the farmer, with the business man, with the ranchman and 
stockgrower; in short, with the real backbone of the human race—the very cream of the earth. He 
has always had dealings with the producers, the men who create the wealth and the men upon whom 
the rest of the people depend for sustenance. This intimacy has given him a clear insight into human 
nature. He knows and sympathizes with the thoughts and aspirations of the common people in all 
walks of life. 

His Life Insurance Career 

His activities for many years prior to the inception of the Pan Motor Company were directed in a 
channel where more real good has been accomplished than in any other business, that of life insurance, 
which has for its fundamental principle the care and protection of the women and children. He 
operated in the great, broad states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, a vast district noted 
throughout the nation for its splendid manhood and womanhood. He was in his true element; the 
business and the surroundings were congenial and as an insurance man he was one of the most suc¬ 
cessful that ever entered the Southwest. His agency covered the four states just mentioned and was 
the largest in the world in point of territory and one of the most important in the character and amount 
of business done; Mr. Pandolfo, personally, and through his various agencies and agents scattered over 
this vast district, placed on the books of his companies nearly a hundred million dollars. This was the 
only life insurance general agency in the world representing three companies at the same time. Of 
course this huge business required extensive capital for its successful operation. In the Southwest 
there is practically only one pay day in the year and that comes when the farmers realize on their crops 
and the stock growers make their annual shipments to the Eastern markets. In the meantime insurance 
agencies had to be financed and as a consequence there was never a time when Mr. Pandolfo was not carry¬ 
ing considerable paper. There was nothing surprising about this situation and as long as prices were good 


























the business advanced by leaps and bounds. But with the advent of the European war the bottom 
fell out, cotton prices slumped and tlie banks were forced to withdraw credits right and left. In fact, 
all business conditions in the South were demoralized and the prospects for a change for the better 
were remote. This left Mr. Pandolfo deeply involved, but by no means broke; be had plenty of paper 
which in normal times would have been worth its face value and from which he has since realized thou¬ 
sands of dollars, besides he had a substantial income from insurance renewal commissions. 


It was this deplorable situation and unforeseen circumstance that caused Mr. Pandolfo to first 
consider the advisability of retiring from the insurance business. Had it not been for the war it is 
safe to say that he would still be operating in the field in which he was so successful for so many 
years. His heart was in the work, because he realized that while he was making money for his com¬ 
panies and himself he was also giving in return for that money the greatest and best value it would 
buy and in addition a protection to the home that was practically invaluable. 


This opens to view the dominating characteristic of S. G. Pandolfo—his kindly feeling for the peo¬ 
ple, his inherent desire to see the people share more fully in the j^ood things of life, to see them have 
more opportunities, more comforts, more conveniences. And when it is stated that out of this desire 
and combination of circumstances sprang the idea of the Pan Motor Company, with its original, frank 
and unique plan of operation, there is no desire to appeal to sentiment or to magnify an unimportant 
fact. Opportunities for studying the automobile needs and requirements of the South and West were 
plentiful and his mind was on the problem a considerable portion of the time, for he realized that no 
make of car selling at a popular price quite filled the bill, that there was really room for many improve¬ 
ments and that the automobile of the future, so far as the country is concerned, must embody many 
essentials so far overlooked or ignored. There are plenty of cars that perform admirably on the boule¬ 
vards, but none had given entire satisfaction over the farm lands and prairie districts of the West, 
through the mountains and over the deserts, up and down, in and out, and under all manner of road 
conditions. More power was needed, greater clearance was demanded, better facilities for carrying sup¬ 
plies and equipment, and the sleeping problem on long trips was a matter requiring serious considera¬ 
tion. All of these points and many others, now embodied in the 1919 Pan, were brought vividly to 
the mind of the organizer of the Pan Motor Company in those strenuous days in the West. 



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Owned 37 Automobiles 


S. G. Pandolfo was the first man to use an automobile for getting over the country in a business 
way in the Southwest. From its first introduction to the present moment lie has been an automobile 
fan, and although neither an engineer nor mechanic, he probably has as ^ood an idea of what a car should 
be and do as any man in the world. While looking after his insurance business in the four big states 
mentioned above he traveled constantly and during the period purchased and drove thirty-seven machines, 
representing practically all of the leading makes. Certainly this lon^ experience with so many kinds 
of machines, in a country with every possible climatic and road condition, should suggest to the mind 
of any thinking man a number of ways in which car building mit>ht be improved, and even more so in the 
case of Mr. Pandolfo, who had made the automobile his main hobby for years and had dreamed of his 
present project and its ^reat possibilities as far back as eight years a^o. 

Idea Develops On One of His Lon^ Drives 

It was on one of his long drives, unaccompanied, over roads that made innumerable demands 
for a more versatile car that this thought took full form and developed into an idea that would not 
be denied. The determination to remedy the situation had seized him and from that time forward 
his thoughts and energies were occupied in developing a plan of operation and in making that plan 
effective. It was the birth day and the birth place of the Pan Motor Company, now so much in evi¬ 
dence at Pan-Town-On-The-Mississippi. 

Mr. Pandolfo was wise enough to see that under the conditions prevailing in the Southwest at 
that time his future was uncertain, and believing that he was entitled to make more money than 
seemed possible under such adverse circumstances and having had for some time a desire to become 
identified with the automobile industry he considered the occasion opportune and the step was taken. 

Procrastination Is the Thief of Time 

Having once made up his mind to organize a company, build an automobile plant and eventually 
create and manufacture the ultimate Pan car, the next step that naturally occurred to him was to do 
it. Mr. Pandolfo is not a procrastinator. With him there is no delay. Now is the only time he knows 
and what there is to do, so far as he is concerned, must be done now. Suiting his action to his dis¬ 
position he proceeded to get busy and placed his proposition before a number of people in the terri- 
























tory in which he was then located. His plan was favorably received and he was accorded the moral and 
financial support of many of the substantial business men, financial men, ranchmen and farmers of 
the South and West. 

Offices Opened in Chicago 

Later he opened offices in Chicago from which he operated for a time and always with the same 
satisfactory results that had been experienced from the start. The Pan Motor Company was a success 
from the beginning, for two very definite and distinct reasons. First: Its plan of organization was and 
is as far in advance of the method ordinarily employed in such undertakings as the car it is now building 
is in advance of the first high wheel, solid tired horseless carriage. Second: The man behind the enter¬ 
prise, the man in whose brain the idea first took form, is a man who never quits, who never lets up on 
his speed, who gets what he goes after and who knows no other goal but success. 

Location of Plant Decided On 

In the meantime the question of location had been engrossing his attention. A number of points 
had been considered and many inducements and concessions had been offered by the commercial organ¬ 
izations of various cities throughout the Central West, but so far none of these seemed to have in the 
fullest measure all the elements and advantages necessary to the proper development of the business. 
Mr. Pandolfo had an extraordinary project on foot and was naturally looking for an extraordinary loca¬ 
tion, one that would have merits in harmony with his enterprise, one that would supply as nearly as 
possible all the needs of such an institution. Nothing less would be satisfactory. 

Such was the situation when Minnesota attracted his attention. Looking over this wonderful 
state he observed that it was rich in agriculture, never having had a crop failure; that it supplied three- 
fifths of the iron ore of the United States and had timber resources unsurpassed anywhere; that its 
water power was abundant; that labor and living conditions were of the best; that it was within imme¬ 
diate and direct touch with the greatest markets, and that it possessed to an unusual degree other 
more or less minor advantages. Thus it was that Minnesota made the most favorable and convincing 
appeal. In Mr. Pandolfo’s mind the Gopher state had every appearance of being one hundred per cent 
satisfactory. But what city gave the best access to these resources and the markets of the world? This 
was another question, but one whose solution proved to be simple enough. A brief study of the map 
answered the question in favor of Saint Cloud, and so Saint Cloud was selected as a possible location. 



























The next step in order was to see what the people of Saint Cloud might think about it. You know 
some communities object to being modernized and industrialized. They don’t like the idea of new blood, 
new energy and an influx of live, wide-awake, up-to-date people. They want to &o along in the old rut 
and do just as they did fifty years a^o. But not so with Saint Cloud. The people here realized at once 
that a real man had entered the gates of the city and that a modern enterprise of no inconsiderable pro¬ 
portions was seeking to become a part of the municipality. So, after due deliberation, they extended 
a befitting welcome and the first plan contemplated some concessions. These, however, were later thank¬ 
fully refused by Mr. Pandolfo who preferred to cast his lot in Saint Cloud on its real merits as a loca¬ 
tion for an automobile factory and to proceed with his plans without let or hindrance, either then, now 
or in the future. 

Incorporated January 8, 1917 


The Pan Motor Company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware January 8, 1917, 
and on the 1st of March following offices were opened in the Farmers’ State Bank Building at Saint Cloud. 
Mr. Pandolfo had associated with him at that time the present secretary of the company, John Barritt, the 
present auditor, Edward J. Gorman, and A. Robinson, a salesman, who is still with the company. The 
first board of directors consisted of five members and included among its number some of the best financial 
and business men of Saint Cloud. Later the number was increased to twelve, the seven additional 
members bringing increased financial strength and prestige to the organization. The Commercial Club 
and the business men generally gave the enterprise their fullest support and progress was rapid. 


Building Program Started June 1, 1917 

On the first of May a factory site, comprising 47^ acres, was purchased and in June the first build¬ 
ing, Factory No. 1, was under construction. From that time to the present moment there has never been 
a let-up on the building program, other than that necessitated by weather conditions. The first ten 
Pan cars were manufactured by an Indianapolis concern and on July 1st the first of these made its ap¬ 
pearance on the streets of Saint Cloud, having been driven by Mr. Pandolfo from the Indiana metropolis 
without accident or trouble and on schedule time. 

On July 4tli a great barbecue was held on the grounds where the drop forge plant now stands 
and the new Pan car was on exhibition all day. Without a doubt it was the greatest day in the history 
of Saint Cloud; it was estimated that 70,000 people were in attendance. This wonderful demonstra¬ 
tion gives the reader some insight into the powerful personality of Mr. Pandolfo; his faith in and 
































respect for the people and his remarkable power and magnetism. He and the product of his brain were 
the centers of attraction. It has been so from the first and today the man, Pandolfo, and the organiza¬ 
tion he heads, the Pan Motor Company, are known throughout the length and breadth of the country 
where people talk plain English and keep themselves jiosted on industrial events and enterprises of the 
greatest importance. 

Constant, Intelligent Effort Price of Success 

The Pandolfo spirit is the spirit that wins. On the job day and night; at his desk with his coat 
off, doin^ the thousand and one things necessary to be done with speed and alacrity; facing his labors 
and the future quietly and cheerfully, knowing well that constant, intelligent effort is the price that must 
be paid for success, he has in a little more than a year made a most remarkable showing. It is the work 
of the Pandolfo spirit. That spirit permeates every department of the organization. It is imparted to 
every individual connected with the company, from the office boy up. It is in the air at Pan Town 
and Saint Cloud and the citizen who does not feel it and is not moved by it is dead from the should¬ 
ers up. 

With every possible element in its favor, with the unbroken success it has already achieved, amply 
attested by the photographs in this hook, with nothing against it except the jealousy its importance has 
created in certain quarters, the Pan Motor Company is moving rapidly on its way to greater and better 
things. 



“An Achievement ” 























An Invitation 

IDEALIZING the impossibility of conveying to the reader an 
-/V accurate and exact impression of the great plant of the Pan 
Company in all its innumerable details through the medium of 
language and pictures, regardless of the time spent and the greed 
care exercised in the preparation of this book, the management 
wishes to iake advantage of the opportunity here presented to 
extend a cordial invited ion to eeich individual eind the public 
generally, to visit Saint Cloud—the home of the Pan—and to view 
with their own eyes the splendid work thed has been done. All 
who can possibly do so are not only invited, but they are urged to 
make the trip. It is a sight well worth seeing, and once seen 
will be long remembered. After a trip through Pan Town and 
the Pan Plant, the reader will realize the inadequacy of the con¬ 
tents of this volume and to whed extent they fall short in disclos¬ 
ing the real situation. 

Come and look us over. We will be pleased to see you and 
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SAINT CLOUD THE HOME OF THE PAN 

T HE history of almost any community is interesting. This is particularly true of Saint Cloud. 
But the world today is giving little heed to history. It is too busy making history. Live, 
red-blooded men are interested only in the present and the future. What has been is no more. 
Records are being smashed on every hand. The world is moving at a pace never before known and Saint 
Cloud has a proud place in the vanguard of progress. It is not the purpose here to consider what has been, 
but what is, and what will be. 

Precedents cut very little figure in modern life. Old dates and old incidents are losing their charm, 
except for those who have not yet entered into the spirit of the times. There are thousands of cities with 
a creditable past, but the past is gone and for the most part forgotten in the teeming activity of the ever¬ 
present now. Those who pause and look behind are overwhelmed. Those who welcome the rising sun 
and face the coming day drive on to better things and ultimate victory. 

Saint Cloud, Minnesota, is a modern city with its head up and facing the future. It is not an acci¬ 
dent nor an incident, but a premeditated intention. It is not of minor consequence, but of major import¬ 
ance. It is not a satellite, but a planet. It is not on the edge of any community, but in the middle of 
one of the greatest and richest sections on earth. These are not broad, sweeping statements. They are 
concentrated, undeniable facts. 

Ideally Located 

The capital of Stearns County, the best agricultural and dairying county in the state, Saint Cloud 
is located on the Upper Mississippi river, seventy-five miles south of the center of Minnesota, the common¬ 
wealth with ten thousand lakes. 

In the building of a city, location is vital. Accessibility is of paramount importance. This fact 
was recognized by the Indians who called the present site of Saint Cloud O-za-te, meaning “the forks of 
the road.” Here three great National Highways and innumerable country roads furnish easy com¬ 
munication with all points on the compass. The National Parks Highway, or Red Trail, from New York 
to Seattle, the Jefferson Trail from Winnipeg to the Gulf, and the Minnesota Scenic Highway, all lead 
























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Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from pa^e 22 


in and out of Saint Cloud, giving the city unexcelled advantages in the highly important matter of 
good roads in all directions; for be it understood that the roads in Minnesota and especially in the 
country tributary to Saint Cloud are the finest in the land. Two transcontinental railways, with their 
numerous branches, furnish swift passenger and freight service to all commercial centers and the out¬ 
side world, while the Mississippi river, with its navigation possibilities and almost unlimited water power, 
now harnessed and in daily use, is one of the city’s most valuable assets. 

Thus are supplied the three great means of travel and distribution of commodities—water, road 
and rail. When air transportation becomes a common practice, as it doubtless will at an early date, Saint 
Cloud will be found “up in the air,” for the enterprise of its citizenship as it is now constituted will 
not permit it to fall behind (or below) in the race it is making for industrial and commercial supremacy. 

Saint Cloud has a population of 16,000 and is growing rapidly. Its people are industrious, frugal 
and progressive. The city is clean physically and morally. It has wide, clean streets and alleys, clean 
back yards, beautiful lawns, fine shade trees, numerous parks and handsome homes. As a matter of 
fact, Saint Cloud is essentially a home city, with probably ninety-five per cent of its people living under 
their own roofs. 


Educational Facilities are of the Best 

Both the city and the state are noted throughout the country for their institutions of learning. 
Minnesota has larger funds for this important purpose than any other state in the Union and Saint Cloud 
is one of its educational centers. Here is located the largest and the best of the State’s four Normal 
schools. This institution has a capable and efficient faculty of forty-two members and every modern 
convenience and equipment. It has two large dormitories for the accommodation of young women stu¬ 
dents at a minimum cost. A special building is provided where students may acquire actual experience 
before assuming their work as teachers. The normal department embraces an elementary course of 
three years and an advanced course of five years, also a professional course of one to two years for grad¬ 
uates of approved High schools and a kindergarten training course of two years. The Saint Cloud Normal 
school has a record of the largest attendance of all state Normal schools and has graduated over 2,000 
pupils. The buildings and grounds are attractive and well kept and the location is ideal, overlooking 
the Mississippi river. 

During the past year a new Technical High School building has been completed at a cost, includ¬ 
ing equipment and site, of $240,000. It is located on the banks of Lake George, with a campus of five 
acres, and is undoubtedly one of the best and most modern school buildings in the state. The people 
of Saint Cloud are justly proud of this splendid institution. The Catholic diocese maintains a High school 


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THE BUILDING OF A MOTOR CAR 


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UILDING a motor car is not at all like what a little boy said of cigar making—“nothing to it at 
all—they just take some tobacco and make ’em.” 

They take iron and steel to “make ’em,” but there is a great deal to it. 


First is the drafting room where the complete car is carefully and painstakingly drawn to scale 
and later full size. The labor involved in this part of the process is prodigious, sometimes months elapse 
before a satisfactory set of plans is ready for the experimental work-shop. 

Then a complete car is built by hand in the experimental work-shop, a building set aside from 
the main factory and devoted to experimental and research work. It can be imagined that this shop 
—really a small factory—must be fully and completely equipped in order to handle such an order. 

This was the first building to be put up on the property—passers-by who, in July, 1917, saw that lone 
building beside the railroad track in the midst of the wide prairie, stared at it and passed on. 


They knew little and cared still less what it was, but it was the start—the foundation of greater 
things to come. 


Too many new automobiles are manufactured and sent out on the roads before their time, and 
the purchasers do the testing. It may look like economy to cut a few hundred dollars off the expense 
of building a new model but it is the dearest economy that was ever practiced. 

An automobile, truck or tractor may look well on paper—a great many things are theoretically 
correct but practically are absolute failures. The true acid test is the test of daily use under every 
condition that can possibly be conceived. 

There is only one way to do this—just one. That is to build the machine by hand, test everything 
in it in every possible way and then run it, not one thousand miles, but ten thousand, fifty thousand— 
far enough and hard enough to try out every atom in it. 

If it stands up to punishment it is an automobile. If it does not—to the junk pile. 


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EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERING BLDG 



FIRST UNIT OF PAN PLANT 


This building was the first to appear on the Pan property. 


While the big concrete factory building was in course of construction Pan 


were turned out here. 


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AT WORK ON TIIE 1919 PAN MOTOR 


SOME EXAMPLES OF WOOD PATTERN MAKING 


The Building of a Motor Gar—Concluded from page 29 





The new model Pan or the car on which the company will go into quantity production, was run 
over eight thousand miles and then taken to pieces. The designers carefully checked up every piece in 
it without finding the slightest indication of undue strain or any appreciable wear. 

They put it together again and sent it out for more punishment. It is being overloaded, driven 
at high speed over rough roads, sent up stiff climbs, through sand, through mud, through all kinds of 
roads and in all kinds of weather. 

No more tedious or more long drawn out job can be imagined than the building of this first car. 
Of course some few parts are to be had ready made such as wheels and springs, etc., but for the most 
part, it is the raw material—and brains. 



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THE RAILROAD ENTRANCE TO THE PLANT 

The Company's side track joins the Great Northern at this point and runs the entire length of the south side of the plant, over a half-mile long. 
From here connections tire made with the Northern Pacific. See Chart “A” and note excellent transportation facilities afforded Saint C"loud 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 25 

and three parochial schools, all having a large attendance. The High school building was recently erected 
at a cost of 875,000, including equipment, and is admirably adapted to its purpose. 

At Collegeville, a short distance from Saint Cloud, is St. John’s University. It is located on the 
shores of Lake Sagatagan, among the pine groves, and is one of the largest theological schools in the 
West. It furnishes accommodations for 400 hoys and 51 instructors. At St. Joseph, a suburb of Saint 
Cloud, is located St. Benedict’s Academy for girls. Both of these are noted schools and attract attend¬ 
ance from a distance. The city also has two business colleges and other schools. 

The Saint Cloud Library and Free Reading Room is one of the centers of attraction and is well 
patronized. It contains 15,000 volumes. In the basement is a well furnished assembly room. It was 
largely through the efforts and financial assistance of the Ladies’ Reading Room Society, which furnished 

Continued on page 34 


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An experimental department must be equipped to build the entire car—It is really an automobile factory on a small scale—where the most 

modern machinery is required. 



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EBERHARDT HI-DUTY SHAPER 


SIPP QUICK CHANGE SENSITIVE DRILL 


CINCINNATI No. 2 UNIVERSAL MILLER 


Saint Cloud—Homo of the Pan—Continued from page 32 

the site for the building, that this necessary institution was secured. There are a number of other 
literary and study organizations, as well as numerous clubs and societies of a social character. 

Religious Denominations Well Represented 


Saint Cloud is well supplied with churches. The leading Protestant denominations are represented 
with ^ood church buildings and, in the main, strong congregations. This being the Bishop’s See of the 
Catholic church a cathedral and two parish churches are required and are well attended. The Baptists 
have two churches, the Lutherans four, Episcopalians one, and the following denominations are all rep¬ 
resented with one church: Unitarian, Christian Scientist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Seventh Day Advent¬ 
ist, Church of God and Gospel Hall. The Methodist society has recently erected a new edifice with a 
parsonage; the Baptists have also recently erected a new parsonage, and the Presbyterians have just com¬ 
pleted a new church building, constructed of granite, which is one of the finest in the state. 




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CINCINNATI UNIVERSAL TOOL GRINDER 



LELAND-GIFFORD HI-SPEED SENSITIVE 
DRILL PRESS 



WEIGEL 25-INCH DRILL PRESS 


Has A Live Commercial Club 


Saint Cloud has one of the most active Commercial Clubs in the country. Through its constant 
efforts many improvements have been made and its influence is felt throughout the county and the 
state. Its membership is composed of a live, aggressive bunch of business and professional men who 
know how to do things and who never rest until they have accomplished their purpose. They have a 
working program and all hands are constantly on the job. There are no drones, no shirkers, no loaf¬ 
ers; but all are steadily working for the best interests of Saint Cloud, Stearns County and Minnesota. 
This pull-together spirit and this constant plugging have brought about many important improvements 
in recent years and there is a community interest and singleness of purpose which mean much to the 
future of the city. The club has large and convenient quarters in the heart of the city which are open 
at all hours of the day and evening. Geo. C. Mantor, secretary of the club, is a live wire and is thor¬ 
oughly informed not only regarding the city, its points of interest, its business and social life, its needs 


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HAMILTON 16-INCH ENGINE LATHE 



and requirements; but is also fully posted on county and state matters. This information is on his 
tongue’s end and finger tips and may be had for the asking. 

The Saint Cloud Businessmen’s Association includes in its membership a large majority of the 
business and professional men of the city. Its object is to promote the mutual interests of its mem¬ 
bers and furnish protection in the way of credits. It is an effective organization and is doing good 
work in its various lines of endeavor. 

Many Fraternal Organizations 

In the fraternal field practically every organization worthy of note is represented. The Elks have 
a membership of 550 and have recently built a new, handsome home at a cost of §40,000. The first secret 
society to have an organization here was the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, who now have a 
home in Masonic Temple for North Star Lodge No. 23, Royal Arch Masons and Knights Templar. Other 
lodges are the Eastern Star, Odd Fellows (with Ursula Rebekah), Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order 




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of Foresters (including St. Mary’s Court and St. Francis’ Court), Knights of tlie Maccabees, Ladies’ Bene¬ 
fit Association of the Maccabees, I. (). B. M., Saint Cloud Camel’s Lodge, Degree of Pocahontas, Ancient 
Order of United Workmen, Degree of Honor, Modern Woodmen of America, Royal Neighbors, Woodmen 
of the World, Woodmen Circle, Modern Brotherhood of America, United Commercial Travelers, Sons of 
Herman, Teutonia Lodge, Royal Arcanum, Modern Samaritans, Independent Order of Foresters, Frater¬ 
nal Order of Eagles, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Daughters of Erin, Equitable Fraternal Union, Broth¬ 
erhood of All Railway Employees, Court of Honor, Brotherhood of American \ eomen, Ladies" Catholic 
Benevolent Association, St. Joseph’s Benevolent Society and North Star Benefit Association. There is 
also a Trades and Labor Council, representing the organized labor unions of the community. 

The Saint Cloud Automobile Club is one of the largest in the state outside of the Twin Cities. 
To this organization much of the credit is due for the many splendid roads leading to and from the 
city and for the construction of the Scenic Highway which skirts the Mississippi river for several miles 
and which is one of the most beautiful drives in the state. 



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Other organizations worthy of mention are: the James M. McKelvy Post of the Grand Army of 
the Republic, the Ladies of the G. A. R., and the Women’s Relief Corps. The Old Settlers’ Association 
of Stearns and adjoining counties holds its annual meetings in Saint Cloud. The Saint Cloud Humane 
Society is active and is doing good work. The Saint Cloud Gun Club has a club house and practice 
grounds near Waite Park. Two first class theatres furnish plenty of wholesome amusement and enter¬ 
tainment through the medium of pictures, vaudeville and the drama. 

Social and Recreational Advantages 

One of the most deserving institutions in the city, however, and one which is serving a most worthy 
purpose is the Saint Cloud Institute which was opened to the public in the late spring of 1917. The 
Institute was erected by the Rev. Joseph E. Busch, D. D., Bishop of Saint Cloud and a man of exception¬ 
ally clear vision and broad-minded views. It is a handsome structure and its club room and auditorium 
are frequented by all the people, regardless of religious affiliations. The board of governors is composed 



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DYNAMOMETER TESTING DEPARTMENT ANOTHER SECTION OF THE MACHINE SHOP 


of members from various churches, with Bishop Busch as president. The main building is 45 feet wide 
and 175 feet in length. The south wing is 120 feet in length and extends along First street south. The 
style of architecture is of the Colonial type, the construction is of solid brick with Saint Cloud granite 
trimmings. The auditorium will seat 900 people, while there are halls for societies, club rooms, band 
room, swimming pool and all other conveniences. The building has an attractive exterior and adds 
greatly to the architectural beauty of the city. 

The Town and Country Club has attractive grounds on the outskirts of the city, with golf links, 
tennis courts and other features customary with such organizations. The club house has a beautiful 
situation on the banks of the Sauk river. 

There are four city parks—Central park, Empire park, Riverside park and Hester park. In each of 
these free concerts are given during the summer season by the Saint Cloud Military Band. There is also 
Athletic park, for baseball and football games. The Benton County fair grounds are located on the east 
side of the Mississippi river, midway between Saint Cloud and Sauk Rapids. In point of exhibits and 

Continued on page 41 


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ANOTHER VIEW OF EXPERIMENTAL MACHINE SHOP 

Here is where the experimental models are built by hand to prove the car, tractor or truck designed on paper will be practical for the work 

it will be subjected to on the road and field. 

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RIVETING MODEL 250 FRAMES 


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Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 39 

attractions, as well as buildings and management, the yearly fairs held on these grounds are recognized 
as the best in the state, ranking second only to the state fair itself. 

This is one of the more important events of the year and has had much to do with the agricul¬ 
tural development of this section of the state. Located as it is, at almost the junction point of the three 
great, wealthy counties of Benton, Stearns and Sherburne, it is rightly regarded as a Tri-county insti¬ 
tution. The society owns over 30 acres of beautiful park lands on which are located some of the finest 
fair buildings in the West, including a main exhibit building, school building, poultry building, live stock 
barns, £>rand stands and bleachers, athletic field and race track and large dance pavilion. 

The city has two well managed, wide-awake daily newspapers, both giving their readers the latest 
telegraphic news up to the hour of going to press. They are independent in politics and lend their great 
influence in all matters pertaining to the best interests of the city, state and nation. They are both loyal 
to the core. 



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PEERLESS HACK SAW 


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St. Raphael’s Hospital is a modern institution, occupying a five-story building and conducting 
a training school for nurses; while St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, located in a beautiful grove 
on the east hank of the river, furnishes care and comfort for the infirm and those too old to care for 
themselves. 

The Minnesota State Reformatory is located in Saint Cloud on the east side of the Mississippi 
river, where it has spacious grounds surrounded by a high granite wall. The buildings, which are most 
substantial in character and imposing in appearance, as well as the walls, are the work of the inmates, 
built under expert supervision and direction, a granite quarry being on the grounds and within the inclosure. 
A farm of several hundred acres is under cultivation and furnishes plenty of useful employment for the 
boys, a considerable portion of the supplies consumed at the institution being derived from this source. 
The management is progressive and operates under the most up-to-date and approved methods for han¬ 
dling wayward youths and directing them into paths of usefulness and good citizenship. 






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BARNES 16-INCH UPRIGHT DRILL PRESS 


WILLEY ELECTRIC TOOL GRINDER 


WEIGEL 20-INCH DRILL PRESS 


Building Indicates Rapid Growth 

Saint Cloud has numerous hotels and rooming houses for the accommodation of the public, but 
owing to the rajud growth of the city it became necessary to increase the housing facilities as rapidly 
as possible. With this object in view three house building concerns were organized and hundreds of 
houses have been erected during the recent months. Another company composed of substantial busi¬ 
ness men was organized to build apartment houses. One of these was soon completed and there were 
70 applicants for its 40 apartments. A second apartment building is planned and will soon be a reality, 
but extensive building operations along this line of course have been somewhat curtailed by war condi¬ 
tions. This is also true of the hotel situation, for had it not been for the war Saint Cloud would now 
have one, possibly two, new modern liostelries in addition to those already here. But these improve¬ 
ments will be coming alon^ shortly and when they are completed they will be modern and up-to- 
the-minute in every respect. 







































SHOWING TEMPERING OVEN AND OTHER EQUIPMENT 

THE ENGINEERING 


FOR FORGING OF SMALL PARTS AND 'POOLS 
DEPARTMENT’S BLACKSMITH SHOP 


Loyalty of Citizens 

If there is a city on the map that is loyal it is Saint Cloud. As an evidence of this it is only 
necessary to call attention to the fact that every war movement, every Red Cross drive, every Liberty 
Loan or Thrift Stamp drive, in fact all war requirements were boosted over the top while many other 
localities were getting ready. On one occasion Saint Cloud’s Red Gross quota was subscribed in an hour. 
At another time the citizens here purchased 50 per cent more than their quota of Liberty Bonds in three 
hours. Saint Cloud adopted the war chest plan while others were talking about it and subscribed 
and pledged its full share towards relief work throughout the duration of the war. Loyal? Where is 
a city more loyal? Where could you find better citizenship or more practical, genuine patriotism? Is 
there a better city to live in or a better people to be among than those who stand by their flag and 
respond promptly and whole-heartedly to the demands of their government? 




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THE BOILER ROOM AND PUMP STATION 


THIS PUMP SUPPLIES PURE WATER FROM DEEP WELL 


According to a recent report sent out from W ashington Saint Cloud is the second war garden city 
in the country. The number of gardens given in the report was 2,500 for a population of 16,000. Ac¬ 
cording to the commissioner’s records, 2,285,000 home food products gardens were planted this year in 
the United States. The number given for the city of Saint Gloud does not cover the entire acreage 
planted by the citizens, as many residents have lake homes nearby where they raised a considerable sup¬ 
ply of vegetables that were not listed in the war garden census. 

Modern City Government 

Some six years ago Saint Cloud adopted the Commission form of government and has benefited 
greatly by the change. Expenditures have been reduced, better fire protection and water supply provided, 
the white way method of street lighting adopted, streets paved and others repaved with better material, 

Continued on page 51 


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FACTORY BUILDING NUMBER TWO—MAIN PRODUCTION UNIT AND THE EXPERIMENTAL BUILDING 
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VIEW OF MAIN PRODUCTION UNIT FROM POWER HOUSE 

Showing part of Saint Cloud, Great Northern R. R., Experimental Engineering building, side track, warehouse and loading platform on right, on 

the left part of Pan Town may be seen. 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 45 

an auto street sprinkler purchased and various other improvements have been secured. The business 
of the city is now transacted from a handsome new building recently completed, which gives ample space 
for all departments. The municipal government is under the charge of three commissioners, elected at 
large; a mayor who has charge of the Department of Public Affairs and Safety, an acting mayor who is at 
the head of the Department of Finances and Accounts and a commissioner of Streets and Public Im¬ 
provements. In addition to the usual city officials there is a Library Board, Board of Health, Board of 
Public Charities and a Park Board. The assessed valuation of Saint Cloud in 1917 was more than four 
million two hundred thousand dollars. 

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LOOKING DOWN THE MAIN ASSEMBLY LINE IN FACTORY BUILDING NUMBER TWO 

Here you see the Model 250, “Queen of the Highway’’ in various stages of assembly—from the point where work begins on the frame to the final 

stage when the car is driven off under its own power. 


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ASSEMBLING MODEL 250 

1 AHE assembling of a motor car is always an interesting sight whether the assembly is made from 
parts manufactured by the company, as the future Pan car will be, or from parts furnished by 
individual manufacturers, specialists in their line. In either event, the assembling process is nec¬ 
essary. It might be well to add that only a small percentage of the automobile manufacturers make 
their own parts, particularly in the early years of their history. 

Although the assembling of the Model “250” Pan is done in a systematic manner, attention is 
called to the fact that when intensive production begins on the new model, or 1919 Pan, a much more 
efficient assembling system comprising the latest type of progressive or conveying machinery will be 
installed, and each worker will have his individual operations to perform. In confining the production 



OPERATION NO. 1 

Assembling Model 250 


OPERATION NO. 2 

Assembling Model 250 




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of the Model “250” to a few hundred ears, it is apparent that it would not be good business to install 
such a system for the assembling process as would be needed later on when the 1919 car is put into 
production, as practically an entire new system of conveying machinery would have to be built. 

Photographs showing the twelve distinct steps of the main assembly in the production of the 
Model “250” are reproduced here. 

Operation 1 starts with the frame and the rear and front axles to which the springs, which 
already have been assembled in the Sub-Assembly, are attached. The tire carriers, brackets and various 
other frame members have already been put together in what is known as the Sub-Assembly. 

The Motor is dropped into place in Operation 2, and the brakes and drive shaft are connected up. 
The transmission, clutch, generator, starter and carburetor have already been assembled and attached 
to the motor in the Sub-Assembly. 

In Operation 3, sod pans are attached and the grease cups and differential are filled with grease. 

Dust shields, running boards, hood sills, radiator shield and the left and right front fenders are 
attached in Operation 4. 


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OPERATION NO. 5 OPERATION NO. 6 

Assembling Model 250 Assembling Model 250 


The next operation, No. 5, comprises the hanging of the Combination Compartment Tank in the 
rear, attaching the body, putting in the steering wheel and fitting the floor boards. 

At Station 6, the spark and gas control system is put in place and at Station 7, the rear fenders 
are attached. 

Front and rear wheels are put on at Station 8 and all are “trued up.” 

In Operation 9, the radiator is attached and the leather lacings are inserted. The hood and wind 
shield are attached as are also the tail and head lights. 

Upholstering, putting on the top and trimming the body are the operations at Station 10. 

In the next Operation, No. 11, the battery boxes are attached, storage battery placed and starter, 
switches and lights are connected up. 

In the final Operation at Station No. 12, the car receives its supply of gas and water and is turned 
over to the inspectors who run it off the assembly line under its own power. 

The car is then subjected to a ri^id inspection and test and if it proves up to the hi^h standard 
set by the chief inspector, it is christened “Queen of the Highway” and is ready for delivery. 



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OPERATION NO. 7 OPERATION NO. 8 

Assembling Model 250 Assembling Model 250 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 51 

Saint Cloud has a well-equipped fire department and good fire protection. Tlie department includes 
nine men and a chief. The equipment consists of a hose cart; hose wagon; an American La France fire 
auto truck, which is a combination chemical ladder and hose truck of the most modern type, with a 70- 
liorsc power motor; a 75-horse power triple combination pumper; a city service truck fully equipped; 
chemical hand fire extinguishers; 8,000 feet of hose and other apparatus. The city has a Gamewell fire 
alarm system, 18 alarm stations and a siren whistle at the pumping station, where electric pumps have 
been installed. The water supply is owned by the city and the water which is taken from the Missis¬ 
sippi river has been pronounced pure and suitable for domestic purposes by the State Board of Health. 

The street car service is exceptionally good. The system is locally owned, is well managed and does 
a paying business. The company has approximately ten miles of track, connecting the business sec¬ 
tion with the southern outskirts, the Great Northern Railway station, the Great Northern shops at 
Waite Park and with the town of Sauk Rapids. The equipment is modern, the majority of the cars 
being of steel construction. 

Continued on page 58 


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OPERATION NO. !) 

Assembling Model 250 


OPERATION NO. 10 

Assembling Model 250 






OPERATION NO. 11 

Assembling Model 250 


OPERATION NO. 12 

Assembling Model 250 








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A CORNER OF RECEIVING AND SHIPPING DEPARTMENT 




MODEL 2oO’S IN EARLY STAGE OF ASSEMBLY 


St. Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 5(i 


Vast Amount of Water Power 


A dam across the Mississippi at the southern end of the city supplies vast water power for man¬ 
ufacturing and other purposes. A canal has been constructed on the west side of the river for plant 
sites and it is the intention to improve the east side in a similar manner. Two plants are now located 
at the dam, one with four water-wheel units having a total capacity of 3,000 horse power and two steam 
turbines Math a total of 2,345 horse power. The second plant has two water-wheel units with a total 
capacity of 1,072 horse power. A third plant is located in the business section of the city, with three 
generators for street lighting service. At this station is also located the gas generating plant, holders 
and storage tanks. This plant is the property of the Saint Cloud Public Service Company. It supplies 
lights for the city, furnishes power for a large number of manufacturing plants and gas for cooking pur- 



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ELECTRIC “JITNEYS” SAVE TIME AND LABOR 


CHASSIS READY FOR FINAL ASSEMBLIES 


poses to almost a thousand patrons. In connection with the Union Power Company, an allied concern, 
it has 202 miles of high tension transmission lines extending to and through 33 towns in Stearns and 
adjoining counties. Through this connection with the Saint Cloud plant these towns are provided with 
electric light and power. The same interests control the Sauk Rapids water power, which it is expected 
will soon be utilized to provide the additional power demanded by the rapid increase of the business 
and the extension of the service. 

The Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company has one of its most important District Head¬ 
quarters in Saint Cloud, occupying a modern building planned and erected for telephone use exclusively. 
The rapid growth of the city and community is convincingly demonstrated by the following figures: 
1912 this Exchange had 1,412 subscribers, which included 409 telephones used by farmers. Since that 
date the number of subscribers in Saint Cloud has increased to 2,742, including 595 farm telephones. 
In 1912 there were 13 operators handling an average of 273,700 calls per month. The increased demand 

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BATTERY TESTING AND CHARGING DEPARTMENT 


BATTERY CHARGING APPARATUS 


TWO VIEWS OF STORE ROOMS IN ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT 


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TWO VIEWS OF THE MAIN STOCK ROOM 



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MODEL 250 PANS READY FOR DELIVERY 


WORKS ENTRANCE TO FACTORY 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from pa^e 51) 

for service now calls for 32 operators, handling 495,500 calls per month. In 1912 there were 20 employees 
on the payroll; today there are 65. Five years ago this office handled nine counties and twelve exchanges. 
Today the Saint Cloud district includes 32 counties and 40 exchanges, owned by the Northwestern Com¬ 
pany; 160 connecting exchanges owned by independent companies, and over 700 farm-line companies, 
all connecting with the Northwestern and representing approximately 75,500 telephones. This service 
requires 17,674 miles of exclusive toll wire; to maintain the lines and equipment 225 people are em¬ 
ployed, and 256 operators have all they can do. The telephone building is of recent construction and was 
erected at a cost of $165,000. Including equipment the present plant is worth $250,000. The company 
has expended considerably over a million dollars during the last five years in extensions and improvements 
on its properties and will continue to expand as business requirements demand. The telegraph and A. 
D. T. service supplied by the Western Union is up to standard and all business is disposed of promptly 
and satisfactorily. 

























































CHASSIS IN' SECOND ASSEMBLY 


STAGES 



STOKE ROOMS LOCATED UNDER BALCONIES 


Building material is abundant. Besides four large lumber yards there are three brick yards, where 
brick of an excellent quality is made. There are also several concerns which do cement work. Two 
large foundries are able to furnish anything needed in the way of iron or steel for building purposes. 
They also manufacture machinery and farm implements. 

Saint Cloud is noted for its beautiful homes, shade trees and well kept lawns. Its high altitude, 
wide avenues, cement walks, pure water and healthful climate make it an ideal residence city. 

Saint Cloud merchants and business men are wide-awake and progressive. The stores are modern 
and up-to-date, with handsome window displays, carrying complete stocks of the latest and best mer¬ 
chandise and all lines are fully represented. 

The shops of the Great Northern Railway Company are located at Waite Park, just outside the city 
limits, at the western terminus of the street railway, and constitute one of the largest and most important 

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PAINTING THE MODEL 250 


W E GIVE little thought as our automobiles plow through mud and water, run on sandy roads, 
stand for hours in the sun and rain, how much patient labor and painstaking care must go into 
the painting of them. If we pay any attention to it at all it is to complain because cold rain 
turns the varnish green for a few minutes until it dries off. 

Painting like every other mechanical process has made great strides ahead in late years. The Pan 
Motor Company is fully abreast of the times with the latest appliances for spraying paint on their cars, 
but until quantity production is undertaken these will not be used. When that time comes all but the 
finishing coats will be laid on in that way. 

The model 250 cars now being turned out are all being painted by hand with the exception of 
the wheels and the interiors of the compartment tanks, which are painted by the spraying apparatus 
shown in one of the photographs. 

First a foundation must be laid just the same as a building. The different coats must be put 
on in their proper order and under the right conditions or trouble will result. 


The room must be heated to from 90 degrees to 120 degrees in order that the paint shall flow freely. 

The views taken in the paint shop all show this—a solid bank of radiation the whole length of 
the outside walls and under the windows in the skylights. 

To start with, all paint and grease is first cleaned off the bodies with a sand blast and the bare 
clean metal is exposed. All rough surfaces are rubbed smooth. Then a metal primer is laid on to 
securely anchor the successive coats to the metal. After that comes the lead coat followed by putty glaz¬ 
ing. Four coats of what is known as “rough stuff'' follow, one each day and it can then be said that 
the foundation is laid with the job ready for finishing. 

The next is one of the most laborious parts of the whole process—the rubbing of the whole job 
with lump pumice stone and water to get a smooth glassy surface. The stock joke of the painters who 
do this is that it “takes a strong back and a weak mind.” 


































VIEWS OF THE PAINT SHOPS IN MAIN UNIT 


That is not true—it takes a strong hack all right but it is a particular, painstaking job. The 
final appearance can he made or marred by the degree of thoroughness with which this work is done. 

When the surface has been rubbed to the proper surface, the first coat of color is put on. This 
dries twelve hours and the glass coat is laid on which is allowed to dry twenty-four hours. 

It looks fairly well now to the layman—much better than when you ran the old fliver out behind 
the barn last spring and painted her up with a can of ready mixed—but it is far from finished. 

The color varnish comes next and then after thirty-six hours of drying is rubbed with felt, pul¬ 
verized pumice and water. The object of this rubbing is to remove all brush marks bringing it 
down to an absolute “flat” surface. All varnish coats are put on by hand to get perfect work. The 
rubbing varnish goes on after this and is dried forty eight hours. 

It is rubbed for finish next and the last coat, the finishing varnish, is “flowed” on. 

First and last we have ^one through with twenty-three distinct and separate operations, and eleven 
coats of paint and varnish are on the car. 



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PAINT SUPERINTENDENT’S DEPARTMENT 


FACTORY SERVICE DEPARTMENT 


The time taken to run a car through the paint shop is eighteen days—not much like a coat of 
quick drying buggy paint on the old fliver one day and running it the next. This time will of course 
be considerably shortened when intensive production begins under the spray system. This equipment is 
already bought and is ready to install. It is to be of the most modern type and will also comprise a 
battery of enameling ovens in which the cars will pass through in a continuous stream during the 
enameling process. 

No class of workmen are more particular about their tools and surroundings than painters. They 
have to be in order to do good work. Absolutely no dust can be permitted and brushes must be the 
best and in perfect condition. 

They do not exactly encourage sight seeing because of the criminal propensity of all mankind to 
exercise a testing finger to “see if it is dry.” 

Do this once, and forever after you are banished from the inner holy of holies where the painters 
hold forth, unless your hands are tied behind you. 






































THE MODERN WHEEL PAINTER 


STRIPING WHEELS 


VIEWS TAKEN IN THE PAINT SHOPS 



PUTTING ON THE FIRST GOAT 


BODIES IN VARIOUS STAGES OF PAINTING 


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LOOKING DOWN TIIE MAIN AISLE 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 63 


BLOCK-TESTING MODEL 2o0 MOTORS 


industrial institutions in this section of the state. These shops occupy a number of large and substan¬ 
tial buildings, ecpiipped to do both construction and repair work, and give employment to over one 
thousand men. An average of 71 cars per day are being turned out. The yards contain large quan¬ 
tities of supplies for distribution to different points along the main line and its branches as they are 
needed. It is expected that the plant, already large, will be further augmented at an early date, as 
more building space, more equipment and larger facilities generally are needed to handle the business 
and meet the demands of a constantly growing traffic. 

Commercial And Manufacturing Interests of First Rank 
Outside of the Twin Cities and Duluth Saint Cloud ranks first in the state as a manufacturing 
and commercial center. While this has been true for many years it is emphatically so today, for it is 
doubtful if another city in the entire country has experienced such phenomenal growth and develop¬ 
ment in the recent past. Of course this is not accidental. There is a reason for this expansion. In fact 


































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there are many reasons, and all good ones, why Saint Cloud should be not only the leading manufac¬ 
turing and industrial center of the state, but one of the foremost commercial cities of the nation. It 
has the location and almost innumerable natural advantages. It has unusual railroad facilities, making 
it a logical distributing center for a vast territory. It is the county seat of Stearns county, the fourth 
county in the state in both wealth and population, and the largest county in the southern half of the 
state, having an area of 851,246 acres of which only 37,000 acres are water. The incorporated limits of 
the city embrace parts of Stearns, Benton, and Sherburne counties, the major portion being in Stearns 
county. 

The country tributary to Saint Cloud is settled by the most thrifty and practical farmers in the 
world and this has naturally developed into one of the greatest producing districts in the state and 
nation. It is only reasonable, therefore, that the city should experience rapid growth along manufactur¬ 
ing and industrial lines. In the center of a giant hardwood timber belt, with vast supplies of building 
stone of the highest quality, at the door of the greatest iron mines in the United States, with cheap 





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transportation on river and lakes, with practically unlimited water power, with plenty of skilled labor 
in all lines, with ideal living conditions and with a population that is fully alive to the situation, is it 
any wonder that Saint Cloud is forging to the front? Indeed, would it not be remarkable if such resources 
and such advantages were allowed to remain undeveloped and unemployed by a wide-awake, aggressive 
people in these strenuous days when every demand for them is being made not only by the country in 
which they are located, but by all the leading nations of the earth? 

The Census of Manufacturers, as issued by the Department of Commerce of the United States— 
the latest issue—gives some very interesting figures and proves beyond question that Saint Cloud not 
only has grown rapidly, but will continue to grow until it takes rank among the busiest cities in the 
country. In 1914 there were seventy-seven different manufacturing establishments in the city, employ¬ 
ing 1,429 wage-earners, the value of whose output was $4,102,969. The industries represented included 
granite sheds, flour mills, foundries, machine shops, wood-working factories, cement works, printing 
establishments, tobacco manufacturers, bakeries, wagon and sled factories, and many others. The per- 

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WWr 



over. 










BEWARE 




Horse Races 


Our Children! 


doci drifting front joi> ter job give comfort 
to tho KnLx-r? 


. >\ 


OF THE V'ORLD 

Classes and |>! oples have i 
won power as they have 
proved lhem;telves to he 
necessary fortthe defense S 
of the State. ! 


GERMAN TRAPS 


W'h« will win this war brtwrvn- I 
rjrj rulot b\ five men aral Or many ruled |[ ( 


BECAUSE 


idle machine* reduce production and 
wvnkcn our .Army. 


,77 The • Inniiur nation will br the u 
pie pniduir the most food. *hij 
and other ji«xJ«. 


AND 


* * * 

WHY 

doc* Uncle Sam need y ou on the jol>V 

BECAUSE 


Do not let Germany even attempt 
over here what she did in Russia. 


Those of us n\ V do the niosl | 
toward winning this war will \ 
receive the most » benefits after I 
the war is over. t 


the Fighter* for freedom must be armed 
and fed and cl other!. 


When we win the war, we can settle 
our other disputes. If we shouldn’t win 
the war, the Kaiser would settle them 
for us. 


A inurn >» ml, n« war,... , 

a link in (Ike • Euv.ii of pOMfurtif'” If >,uu 
•tor oh III® Mi you we.J.i-i, »lw 


STICK TO Y JUR JOB 

nlil Iho U. Sl Eniiiloviivnl Ik «*!<• you In fh 


Ml.NT oi 1 \Hott 


U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 


li. <. HtflSTMOd OF l ABOK. 


IS. S. HE' I'MEKT OF LABOR 


■ zn '~ —„r 


mm smm 


GET THE HABIT 

OF DOING THINGS RIGHT , 


LET US REMEMBER 

RIIXXI4I 


OUR CHANCE 


BOOT STRAPS 


Germany* strength is the willingness of 
her military cade fo sacrifice her people. They 
the big prize- the chance to rule the world- 
.Mid they arc willing to pay the price in German 
*uffering. 

To hold democracy the right to rule our- 
nclve* and to he tree men our people must of 
their own free will pay e-m a bigger price and 
make even a greater fa e. 


We don’t try to pull ourselves up by our 
boot straps do we? Then why try to get richer 
by producing less? 


He lives best who serves his 
fellows best. 


THIS WILL MEAN: 

Greater Production 
Less Waste 
Increased Earnings 


The Russians meant.well. 

But they took lime to talk while 
the house was burning! 

Of course the Kaiser encouraged 
them. 

lie knew (hat would be the easiest 
wav to lick them! 


This war is our chance, not 
to GET more, but to DO 

more. 


However much we may want better wnv» 
of distribution, we mud first have (initltt 
/*lotltirlioti in order to win thin war. 


VN e must rite above thinking too much of 
profit* or wages. We should he ashamed of 
what money we are getting just because of the 
war. 

When our Sammies return they will ask us 
>nly one question: 


The group which does the 
most towurd winning the 
war will have the greatest 
influence after the war is 


By the further development of those quali¬ 
ties of enterprise, initiative, originality, and 
hustle, characteristic of the American people, 
labor can earn an additional debt of gratitude 
from our country. 


WE Ml ST XOT LET HIM PLAY TIM 
SAME Hilt K OS I S. 


HELP WIN THE WAR OOICKLV 


A: .if did //olt do to help »m I lie war r " 

l. > MMJtTNFVT OF LA BOH 


U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 


IJ. S. DtPAKTMLVI OL LABOR. 


^ U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

J W U. WILSON. 


U. S. ULrART.MCM 01 LABOR 

M WII^ON 1 


W 1> WILSON. 




ONE OF THE FACTORY BULLETIN BOARDS 


Posters furnished by the U. S. Department of Labor are posted in conspicuous places throughout plant so that the worker is constantly reminded 

of the need of giving his best efforts at all times. 


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HOT WATER FOR LAVATORIES 


FACTORY FILLING STATION 


SANI TARY DRINKING FOUNTAINS 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from pai>e TO 

cent a of increase in the number of wage-earners during the period from 1910 to 191 1 was 128.3, more 
than three times that of St. Paul and Duluth, more than four times that of Minneapolis, more 
than twenty times that of Winona and more than thirty times that of Mankato. Now, it is a well known 
fact that the years since 1914 have been the most prosperous in the history of Saint Cloud. Consequently 
the intelligent reader can readily appreciate the significance of more recent figures, were they available, 
and realize what an eloquent and convincing story they would tell. 


The Granite Industry 

Saint Cloud is widely known as “The Granite City.” The immense beds of granite deposits in the 
immediate vicinity constitute its greatest source of wealth and form the basis of its leading industry. 
The beds are easily worked and the supply is practically inexhaustible. The stone is adapted to a wide 
range of uses, is of a fine texture, with 27 varieties of color, from deep, dark grey to deep red and from 
black to white. When polished it is unsurpassed by any granite in the world. There is the light, medium 





























































and very deep red, resembling in color the Scotch granite and Tennessee marble; grey, light, mottled 
and deep; other shades so dark as to be almost black. The predominating colors, however, are dark 
red, ^rey, black, pink and blue—all fine texture and all susceptible to the highest polish. It is used 
extensively for monuments, building purposes, cut to measure, hammered or rough-faced. It has been 
used effectively in the seam-faced rubble, with dressed trimmings; for columns, pillars, steps, sills, curb¬ 
ing, paving blocks, piers, retaining walls, and so on. The crushed granite cannot be excelled for paving 
and road-making. Carloads of monuments and granite in other forms are shipped daily from Saint 
Cloud to both near and distant points throughout the country. Many of the fine buildings seen in the 
great cities are constructed of Saint Cloud granite. The vast superiority of the stone brings wider rec¬ 
ognition and a constantly increasing demand. This is unquestionably one of the big, permanent indus¬ 
tries of Saint Cloud. More than forty quarries are now in operation and new plants are being organized 
and equipped in considerable numbers each year. 

Continued on page 76 


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THE WOODWORKING AND PATTERN SHOP 

This department is located in Factory Building Number Two and is well equipped to turn out the many wood patterns necessary in the develop¬ 
ment of a machine—all cabinet work is also done here. 

It --- 

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VIEWS OF T1IE PATTERN SHOP IN MAIN FACTORY 


A WELL equipped pattern shop is one of the first things needed in a plant such as the Pan Motor Company. Almost 
every step in their development calls for patterns and templates of all kinds. 

“ The experimental shop must of course have practically the whole of every new model made up in wood, not 
only in order to make any castings that may be required of iron, steel or bronze, but for the purpose of inspecting 
the appearance of various parts and jud^in^ how fhey will look when the car is completed. 

It can very well be imagined that this is a task that will test the powers of even the most skilled worker in 
wood. There are no “wood-butchers” or “cracker-barrel whittlers” here—no one can do such work as is required 
of the pattern-maker but the expert wood worker, who must be as much an artist as the sculptor or painter. 
Modern machinery and equipment back of these artists are necessary to get such work out in good shape so no 
expense has been spared to supply it. 

Passing on through the works the traces of the pattern maker’s hand are seen everywhere. In the mill work it 
is special brackets and hangers for the shafting—in the power house it is the pipe supports and hangers and other 
special castings for the construction of the boilers. 

The for^e shop has also drawn heavily on the pattei’n making department, as, for instance, the outside casings 
or shells of the ovens for heat treating were first made in the pattern shop and cast in a local foundry. 


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GREENLEE UNIVERSAL SAW TABLE CRESCENT 36-INCH BAND SAW 

Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 73 

Over a thousand men find profitable employment in this business. As the quarrying cost of gran¬ 
ite is comparatively slight, the expense of the finished product is to be charged mainly to labor, and 
as much of this is skilled, the monthly pay roll at the quarries is a big item and means much to the 
local merchants and business men. 

Some idea of the growth of this industry may be gained from the following comparative statement: 

1913— No. men employed, 750; value of production, $1,009,338. 

1914— No. men employed, 773; value of production, $1,015,415. 

1915— No. men employed, 880; value of production, $1,101,220. 

1916— No. men employed, 1030; value of production, $1,303,560. 

During this three year period the number of men employed increased 280, or over one-third, and 
the value of production $294,222, or almost thirty per cent. The increase the present year will run 
above the average. It is safe to say that the value of the output at the present time is considerably 
over $2,000,000 annually. 


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YATES 21-INCII-3-KNIFE SURFACER 


YATES 16-INCH JOINTER 


TOLEDO AUTOMATIC SCALE 


Banks Show Healthy Condition 

The banks are the real pulse of any city. They tell the financial story in cold figures and every 
figure has a meaning. The dollar today is more important than ever before in the world’s history, not 
because it has greater value, but because the people have learned how to use it, how to make it work, 
how to make it do things it has never done before. Dollars were effective in winning the war. Therefore, 
the city that is well blessed with dollars is well on the road to victory and a realization of its most cher¬ 
ished hopes. Nothing can stop the dollar, if it is well managed. 

Saint Cloud has the money and the brains to use it to the best advantage. There are six banks 
doing business in the city. Two of these, the First National and the Merchants National, hold federal 
charters and four, the Zapp State Bank, Security State Bank, Farmers State Bank and Saint Cloud 
State Bank, are operating under the Minnesota state banking laws. 

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TOILETS LOCATED ON BALCONIES 
Conveniently Accessible But “Out of the \\ ay” 


SECTION OF LAVATORIES AND LOCKER ROOM 
Every Employe Has His Individual Locker 




SANITATION IS PARAMOUNT 
Every Health Precaution Is Taken 


‘CLEANLINESS NEXT TO GODLINESS” 
No Unnecessary Waiting to “Wash Up” 






J 


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VIEW OF MAIN PRODUCTION UNIT FROM WEST SIDE 

Space for future expansion lias been provided for; Additional units will be added on this side of the Main Production Unit, Factory Building No. 2, as 

the necessity arises. 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 77 


These banks show a healthy condition and a steady, consistent growth from 1903 to the present 
year, as indicated by the following figures, which give the total deposits for the city and the county at 
various times during the period: 


Year 

Saint Cloud 

Stearns County 

Year 

Saint Cloud 

Stearns County 

1903 

.$ 475,300.18 . .. 

.$ 1,152,640.33 

1916. 

.$4,223,037.78 . . . 

.$10,947,297.97 

1908. 

1,051,837.15. . . . 

. 2,941,864.00 

1917. 

. 4,891,871.59. . . . 

12,460,428.95 

1913. 

. 3,212,894.40. . . 

. 7,669,385.55 

1918. 

. 5,566,173.11 

14,402,009.90 


It will be noted that the fiscal year which closed June 30, 1918, from the standpoint of bank 
deposits, was the most prosperous in the history of the city and the county, the increase in the city for 
the year being considerably over one-third of that of the entire county and proving beyond a doubt 
that Saint Cloud is rapidly becoming a financial center of great importance. It is generally conceded 
that the splendid gains of the past two years are to a great extent due to the Pan. 





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WORKS ENTRANCE TO MAIN FACTORY WINDOWS ARE KEPT BRIGHT 


The post office tells the same story about Saint Cloud that is told by the banks, the telephone 
company and other institutions whose monthly and yearly records furnish reliable information and 
unmistakable evidence of the steady progress of the city. One of the sure indications of a healthy growth 

Continued on page 82 



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NEW MACHINERY ARRIVES ALMOST DAILY 



ADDITIONAL MACHINERY READY TO RE UNCRATED AND SET UP 


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GROUND ENTRANCES ARE GUARDED 


STEEL FENCING 


PROTECTS THE PROPERTY 



■■■I! 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pail-—Continued from page 80 

is to bo found in the receipts of the post office. The increase in business and population is indicated 
as clearly by the following figures as is the time of day by the hands on the clock. 


The gross receipts of the Saint Cloud post office from the sale of stamps, stamped envelopes, 
postal cards, newspaper wrappers, etc., for the several calendar years ending December 31, from 1905 to 
1917, are given below and make a splendid showing: 


1905. 

. 820,600.66 

1908. 

. 827,050.02 

1911. 

. . 831,794.71 

1914. 

. 841,438.75 

1906. 

. 23,595.74 

1909 

. 28,493.64 

1912. 

. . 32,591.87 

1915. 

. 49,172.57 

1907. 

. 24,567.32 

1910 

. 29,577.45 

1917. 

1913. 

. . 873,507.56 

36,677.26 

1916. 

52,471.99 


For the first six months of the present year, to June 30, 1918, the receipts were 854,536.79, or 
S25,791.92 more than they were for the corresponding period of last year. These figures show a gain 
of nearly fifty per cent, and in view of the fact that the average increase in post office receipts through¬ 
out the country is something like six per cent, this showing is nothing short of remarkable. 



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THE WORKS ENTRANCE 





SHIPPING AND RECEIVING PLATFORM 


The post office personnel includes a postmaster, assistant postmaster and superintendent of mails, 
13 clerks, 10 city carriers, 2 substitute city carriers, 6 rural carriers, 2 mail messengers, 2 special delivery 
messengers and other help. The building itself is a handsome and imposing structure, centrally located 
and when first erected gave ample space for the accommodation of the business, hut like many othei 
cities, Saint Cloud has outgrown its post office facilities and steps have been taken which insure an addi¬ 
tional building at an early r date. 

Dairies Make Millions 

Minnesota, the Father of rivers and Mother of lakes, is also the Bread and Butter state of the 
nation, with dairying as one of its most important, if not its leading industry. It is doubtful whether 
within any section of like area a greater number of successful creameries can be found. It is the 
exceptional community which does not have one or more. Among the ten thousand lakes in the state are 
nestled 841 creameries, 85 cheese factories and 100 ice cream factories. 









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SOUTHEASTERN CORNER PLANT 
Showing Side Track Entrance 


“GUARD POST NO. 1” 
Entrance to Factory Grounds 



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VIEW FROM THE WATER TOWER 

Showing the Main Factory, Experimental Building, part of Power Plant, Loading Platform and Warehouse. Part of Saint Cloud proper can be 

seen in the upper right hand corner and Pan Town in the upper left hand corner. 


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VIEWS OF WORKS DEPARTMENT WAREHOUSE 



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MAIN POWER PLANT 



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DEPENDABLE POWER A FOUNDATION STONE 


M ANKIND has no record of a time when the possession of mechanical power lias not been the decid¬ 
ing factor in the fate of nations. Everything else is subordinate to it. This may he disputed 
but it is true nevertheless. The recent struggle in Europe resolved itself into a fight for the pos¬ 
session of just two things—coal and iron—power and steel. The hardest fights the world ever saw or ever 
wall see have been over the coal fields of northern France. 

The issue may be and is, clouded by a multitude of other things—crowns and dynasties, kings 
and princes and their petty quarrels but in the last analysis it is power—potential and active. All 
industry is dominated by this one thing. The possession of dependable power is the foundation stone 
upon which every industrial enterprise is built. Without it Napoleons of finance are helpless, and cap¬ 
tains of industry become privates in the rear rank. 

One of the most potent reasons for the location of the Pan Motor Company in Saint Cloud was the 
magnificent water power development along the Mississippi. 

Fully alive to the necessity for uninterrupted service twenty-four hours a day and seven days in 
the week, the company has made elaborate preparations. A substantial pole line has been set to a point 
just off the company’s property and a transformer station of two thousand horse power capacity has 
been built, which connects wdth the Public Service Company lines. From that point on, all wires are 
underground in the elaborate system of tunnels and galleries. This is good insurance against accident 
and interruption of service, and loss of life. 

Just across the Great Northern Railroad from the transformer station and near the center of the 
property stands the central power station of the Pan Motor Company. There is nothing more exas¬ 
perating than the “cussedness” of inanimate things. No matter how skillfully men may build, no 
matter what precautions they take against trouble—still trouble comes. Transmission lines some- 

Continued on page 90 




















{_ . . . v-- • • _■■_ _*_ _ . . - .- ■ •*!**! •*' . __i 

THE BOILER ROOM IN MAIN POWER PLANT 

With the completion of the automatic stoker system these boilers will be fed from overhead bins kept Idled by a crane and clamshell bucket 

operating between the coal pile and boilers. 

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times blow down, anchor ice clogs water wheels and racks, generators may run for years and then 
suddenly go up in a burst of flame, and so on ad finitum. When the power stops every machine is 
silent, and a howl goes up that rattles the windows. Remarks that burn the wires come over the 
telephone. No matter if it is the first time in a year, they want power—quick! 

Then we know why there is a central power station large enough to light a small city in the 
center of the property. There can be no half-way business about building a power plant. Either it is 
adequate and dependable or it is not. 

The building that houses this vital center of activity is a brick, concrete and steel structure, 
106 feet long, 60 feet wide and three stories high. The foundations go down to a solid bottom. Plenty 
of light is provided all over the building—no dark dirty corners full of oily waste and trash will be 
permitted. Two Franklin water tube boilers of 150 H. P. each, and one Freeman with 395 H. P. normal 



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100 H. P. FREEMAN WATER TUBE BOILER 


SIMPLEX WATER METER 


COOK DEEP WELL PUMP 


rating stand in tlie boiler room. The water is in a network of tubes inside, and the fire passes between 
them in a zig-zag path, giving up most of its heat before the waste gases finally pass up the tall stacks 
and are free. The fires are fed by automatic stokers, and an interesting feature of them is that the 
coal is forced up under the fire and the ashes are raked off the top. 

There are two stacks, one 100 feet high, six feet in diameter, the other 80 feet high and three 
feet six inches in diameter. An engine driven fan, in addition to the natural draft will ^ive the boilers 
sufficient capacity over their rating to take care of any emergency that is likely to occur. 

The operation of the fan and stoker is a fascinating tiling to watch. Whenever the steam pres¬ 
sure falls the sensitive governor on the engine of the fan speeds it up. The stokers are mechanically 
driven and they, too, respond to the same impulse and drive more coal into the fires. As soon as the 
steam pressure rises, they slow down. 

Continued on page 93 


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THE ENGINE ROOM IN MAIN POWER AND LIGHT PLANT 

Several thousand dollars were saved in the purchase of the Pan power plant equipment through the foresight of the management. It is large 

enough to take care of the light and power needs of a good sized city. 


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Dependable Power a Foundation Stone—Continued from page 91 

Water is fed into the boilers by two heavy duty pumps, either one able to supply all three. If 
the water stands at a proper level in the boilers everything is serene, but if it falls below the deadline 
set for it, an alarm blows. Nothing else in the world gets quicker action out of a fireman than that 
alarm whistle. Automatic coal bunkers and ash conveyors will be part of the equipment, so that fuel 
will be delivered and ashes taken away by the most approved and up-to-date appliances. 

Passing on into the engine and dynamo room, one sees the prime movers, one an Allis-Chalmers 
compound engine driven generator of 17.5 K. W. capacity (about 235 H. P.) and an Ideal Compound 
Engine machine of 75 Iv. W. (or 100 H. P.) rating. These stand on solid foundations and one notices 
that each one is entirely separate from the floor—that is, the foundations are not connected with 
the building. This is to prevent a curious tiling—when heavy engines run together on the same 
foundation or are solidly connected they tend to fall “into step” or rotate in unison. Every other 
vibration seems to fall into step with them and all together they fairly rock the whole building on its 
foundations eventually destroying both machinery and building. 


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RHEOSTAT AND TRANSFORMER RACK 


ANOTHER MEW OF THE ENGINE ROOM 



Over in one corner of the big room is the chief operating engineer’s office. It will be provided 
with every appliance to show operating conditions all over the plant. There is an instrument that tells 
at a glance how much water has been evaporated in a given time. The coal weights are automatically 
recorded to show how much coal is burned in any given period. Tbe steam flow meters will give the 
amount of steam used and the recording electric meter will show the output of electric power. Check¬ 
ed one against the other and placed on a chart, comparisons will be made between runs of days, 
months and years and the slightest lowering of efficient economical operation detected. 

In the other corner the switchboard will be found, the vital center of the whole plant. It is of 
polished marble and somewhat resembles a monument. It is. The words and terms the switchboard 
operator uses so easily are the most enduring memorials that any man can possibly have. The term 
“volts" is the imperishable memorial to Volta. “Ampers” perpetuates the name of Ampere. Other terms 



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more or less used by the electrical engineer carry the names of a number of other pioneers of the 
science down through the ages. 

The old fairy tales we read with their wonders and marvels, their ma^ic enchantments and remark¬ 
able happenings were but the dim gropings after the secret unknown power that the ancients felt 
pervaded all creation. They saw it in the lightning, leaping from crag to crag. They heard it in the thun¬ 
der, its workings confused and mystified them at every turn, but not until our time was it harnessed 
and set to work. 

The whole plant has been designed to allow for future expansion. As the business shows new units 
will be added fast enough to keep pace with the call for power. On first thought, it might seem to be 
better business to put in engines and boilers lar^e enough to take care of the needs of the whole factory 
when it is complete, hut that is not true. The hest engineering practice is to divide the source of power 


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APPROXIMATELY 3,000 TONS OF COAL IN THIS PILE THE OIL TANKS—A GRADE FOR EVERY PURPOSE 

into several units as experience has proved that this is the way to avoid trouble. One big unit is liable 
to be out of commission and the job is flat, while it is very unusual for more than one of several units 
to be laid out at a time. 

Another point that was considered when the 100 H. P. Ideal engine was put in was that at times 
when only a few machines and lights were in operation, the smaller engine would be large enough to 
take care of the load and incidentally decrease the operating costs. The two engines now in place are 
non-condensing as the exhaust is used for heating. The plant is already turning out 2,300 volts for 
power and lighting. An interesting fact about the Pan Motor plant is that its present estimated value 
exceeds the purchase price by approximately 100 per cent, due to an opportune buy last year when a 
Minnesota city decided to sell its power and li^lit equipment. No time was lost in closing the deal at a 
bargain price and shipping the machinery to Saint Cloud. 


Pnge !)(» 















































THESE. LONG TUNNELS RUN FROM THE POWER HOUSE TO ALL BUILDINGS 


LONG DELAYS CAUSED BY BURSTED STEAM PIPES, ETC., ARE TO BE AVOIDED 


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WATER TOWER AND PUMP HOUSE 


‘STEP DOWN” TRANSFORMER STATION 


PROPERTY FLOODED BY LIGHT AT NIGHT 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 83 

The creameries alone paid into the coffers of the farmers last year $44,176,033.18, an average for 
the whole state of 44.32c. per pound for butter fat. The total value of Minnesota’s dairy products for 
the year exceeded $110,800,000.00. This includes butter, cheese, milk and ice cream. This money 
remains at home, is circulated in the state and is a year-round income for the farmers. 

The National Creamery Buttermakers’ Association offers at each of its conventions a $100 silk ban¬ 
ner to the state whose average of the ten highest entries is the greatest. Only two out of fourteen ban¬ 
ners that have been offered have gone to other states, Minnesota having won twelve. Seventeen prizes 
in all have been offered in competition between the states, and Minnesota has won fifteen of them. 
This, it must be admitted, is a remarkable record and one that the dairymen of the state may well 
be proud of. 

Stearns county is the banner creamery county of the state, having 32 creameries with 3,390 patrons, 
28,751 cows, receiving yearly 2,786,966 pounds of milk and 17,442,950 pounds of cream, producing 4,556,472 
pounds of butter fat and 5,598,944 pounds of the best and sweetest butter on earth. In 1917 the cream¬ 
eries of Stearns county paid to the farmers for butter fat $2,000,693.32 and received for their butter 
$2,242,878.16. 





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LOOKING WEST FROM WATER TOWER 


swing coal pile, side tracks and forge plant; also Great Northern to west and south. Waite Park, where the car shops of the Great Northern 

Railway are located, is shown in the upper left hand corner of photograph. 


The creamery business is bringing about wonderful changes in Minnesota farm life. Much credit 
is due the farmers for the progress made in the raising of better bred cattle. Some of the finest herds 
in the country are to be found here and these wonderful producers are being cared for by intelligent 
farmers who understand the up-to-date methods of feeding, which fact accounts for the thousands of 
new silos which dot the country here and there all over the state. Along with this advancement go the 
beautiful farm houses, fine barns and creamery buildings, all of which conspire to increase the commun¬ 
ity spirit and insure permanent residents. One of the new features in the modern creamery building 
is a comfortable rest room for the farmers’ families, and club rooms on the second floor where meetings 
for business and pleasure are held. These advantages make the creamery a community center. 

Because of this intelligent management of the business on the part of the farmers and because 
of the exceptional natural advantages here offered, the average price paid Minnesota farmers for milk 
and butter fat is in excess of that of almost any other section. The average cow is depended upon to 
yield an annual return of from $50 to $75. In other words, one milch cow will bring in more in dollars 

Continued on page 110 



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THE PAN DROP FORGE PLANT 

O NE of the outstanding features of the company’s achievements for 1918 was the building, and 
equipping of its big drop forge j}lant, already in operation and almost fully equipped at this writ¬ 
ing. Only those who have had an opportunity to watch its construction from the start early 
in the year to its present stage can fully realize how successfully this gigantic project is being rounded 
out in so little time. 

Here, like in every other department, the company is building alon^ the lines that will insure 
it a permanent and profitable place among the largest and most modern drop forge plants in the nation. 
The character of its buildings and machinery, their size and number, and the energetic and skillful 
organization behind it are ample evidence of its qualifications for a position at the top of the list. 

The Pan drop forge plant comprises eight department units or buildings; the die shop, power 
plant, forge or hammer shop, oil storage, heat treating plant, physical and chemical laboratory, mate¬ 
rial, die and shear storage warehouse (under construction) and general office building. The construction 
of these buildings alone was a big task. Tens of thousands cubic feet of concrete, several hundred thou¬ 
sand brick, several hundred tons of steel and nearly 35,000 square feet of glass and steel sash are the 
approximate quantities of some of the most important materials that went into their construction. 

No expense has been spared in the equipping this plant with the most efficient and modern types of 
machinery. A trip through the various buildings will convince the most critical technical inspector of 
that fact. The die shop, where the first drop forging operations begin, is one of the finest machine shops 
in the country. This unit of the forge plant has been in operation since July of this year. In the 
main forge unit or hammer shop one sees some of the modern giants of the industrial world—the 
drop for^e hammers and trimming presses, some of them weighing 60 tons—huge monsters, grim and 
businesslike. 

Of the nineteen hammers with which this shop will be equipped, seven are already in place and the 
balance of them are expected shortly. Forgings are being made daily at a rate that indicates that the 

Continued on page 143 






































ONE OF THE UNITS OF THE DROP FORGE DEPARTMENT 


In this building are located the modern die makers’ equipment and 

It is one of the finest 


machinery—It is in here that first drop for^e making operation takes place, 
machine shops in the country. 


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HOW DROP FORGINGS ARE MADE 


D ROP for^in^s are the vital parts of the automobile, tractor and truck, the bayonet, the shell, the 
cannon, in embryo. It is interesting—this process from the die block to the finished product. 
First of all, the character of the forging begins with the quality of the die block, and a great deal 
must be relied upon the ability of the operator. The die block is first planed, leaving stock on one side, 
which later forms the “edger” or “breakdown.” The shanks which result on the lower edge of the blocks 
form the gripping surface by which the dies are held securely in the hammers. 

A templet or pattern outline of the forging to be produced is made, from which the shape of the 
forging is traced into the planed surface of the die block. The machine then mills the “roughing” cut 
to the shape required following the design traced into the block. A finishing or smoothing cut is taken 
over the impressions in the die block after the roughing cut is completed. The “edger” or “breakdown” 
is then formed. This operation constitutes part of the sinking of the die. 

The “edger” is used to take the rough shape of the forging. This makes possible some of the 
really remarkable products which come from the hammers. With the three operations the die is almost 
complete. Accuracy requires every possible expert attention. The skilled mechanic then scrapes and 
smoothes the impression, bringing it to the highest possible degree of perfection. Both halves of the 
die are placed together, face to face, and a lead cast is poured so that the dimensions may he checked. 
The depressions for the flash or surplus stock are next formed on both halves. 


The proof of the die is cast by pouring lead into the impressions in the blocks, when placed face 
to face. The cast is carefully checked and if found to he correct is sent to the purchasers for the 
approval of their engineering department. 

The next operation is the sinking of the depression for the flash. Small sized dies are then sent 
to the heat-treating department for the tempering process. The larger die blocks, such as those used in 
making crankshafts, axles, etc., are tempered before the die making operation begins. The dies are now 
ready for the forcing operation. 






















CARE AND ACCURACY—THE DIE SINKER’S WATCHWORDS 



CONNECTING ROD DIES READY FOR HAMMERS 


The steel to be used in the making of drop forgings is received in a crude stage in standard mill 
sizes from one-half to five or more inches square and also round bars of from one-half to five or more 
inches in diameter. 

Proper handling of raw steel stock is a matter of great importance. The stock is kept under cover 
from the weather and the different grades and sizes are separated according to their mechanical content. 

Every bar of steel is carefully inspected when received, to detect possible defects. Material showing 
seams, shuts, or other defects is rejected. An accurate analysis of the chemical content of the drillings 
selected methodically is made in the laboratory. This analysis is carefully checked with the purchasers’ 
specifications and if not in accordance therewith, the material is rejected. 

Upper and lower dies are then placed in the hammer, and with smashing blows the forging is 
made. Immediately after receiving the blows from the hammer, the white hot forging is carried to the 
trimmer where the flash or surplus metal is trimmed off. 

Continued on page 105 




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LOOKING EAST IN DROP FORGE DIE SHOP 



The first operation in the manufacture of drop for^in^s—making the dies—takes place here. Here one sees some of the finest machines ever assem¬ 
bled for die making and machine work. 


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IIow Drop Forj§injSs Are Made—Continued from paj§e 103 

This trimmer is fitted with a cutter which bears the exact outline of the forging bein<$ made. The 
trimmer puts the finishing touch to the forging, with the exception of the upsetting of the flange, should 
any flange be required. When the dies are sunk, sufficient allowance is made for the stock required for 
the flange. The flange end is again heated and placed into the dies in the upsetting machine. This 

mer, out a ramming device, wmcn rams tiie stock on tiie tlange end ot tlie torging into tne required 
shape of the flange. 

Upset forgings are required in crank-shafts, drive-shafts, wheel-hubs, counter weights, worm and 
bevel gears, etc. 

Operation number twelve covers heat-treating. The forging heat being so far above the average 
critical temperature, it is necessary to heat-treat the steel after the forcing process to restore its physi¬ 
cal properties; all forgings which will be subjected to severe shocks or strains, should, therefore, be 
properly heat-treated. Simply allowing the forging to cool from the forging heat is by no means proper 



Pag** 105 











































AVERY No. 1 Y % DRILL PRESS 


UNIVERSAL GRINDER 


AVERY No. 2 }2 DRILL PRESS 


heat-treatment. Heat-treatment begins after the forging lias cooled. The forgings are taken from the 
hammers to the heat-treating department. Here they are given a preparatory heat to reduce forging 
strains. Next they are treated to the critical temperature and quenched and then drawn and tested 
to the proper hardness. This hardness is the proof of the suitability of the forging for the wear and 
strain of actual use. The forgings are then pickled to remove the scale. 

The forging is then subjected to an oil and water quenching operation. An abundance of water 
insures absolutely uniform cooling and consequently a uniform hardness. 

After the forgings have been heat-treated, it is necessary to heat them again to reduce the quench¬ 
ing strains, and prepare the metal for the machine. This is known as the “draw-heat” and is consider¬ 
ably lower than the critical temperature. After the forgings have remained in this heat for the required 
length of time, they are removed from the furnace and allowed to cool in the air. This process, prop¬ 
erly carried out, so conditions the steel as to permit a free machine operation. 


Concluded on page 108 



• 106 





































A BATTERY OF CINCINNATI PLANERS IN DIE SHOP 




The face of the rough die block is first planed down to a smooth surface on one of these machines before futher operations begin. The shanks 

are also formed here. 



Pag© 107 


























GISHOLT 42-INCH BORING MACHINE SUPERIOR 28-INCH DRILL PRESS 

How Drop Forgings Are Made—Concluded from page 106 

The temperature required for the proper heat-treatment is determined by a chemical analysis of 
the steel. Special equipment is used in determining the temperature while the heats are in progress. 
It is quite impossible to ^au^e accurately the temperature of the furnace during a “heat” without this 
equipment. Scientific exactness in every step—modern machinery and equipment—skill and care are 
what make for^in^s dependable. 


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tl. 


HEAT TREATING THE FORGING 

F OR hundreds of years—in fact clear back to the dawn of history—the Japanese have made wonder¬ 
ful swords. The tempering of these blades has always been a religious ceremony to be carried out 
with scrupulous exactness, so much heating and hammering, so much prayer, so many plunges into 
water, etc. 

The modern metalurgist reading the account of it and shrewdly guessing at the properties and com¬ 
position of their steel, smiles as he figures mentally, the degrees of heat and the time taken to repeat 
the prayers. He thinks if he followed the same program with a stop watch instead of the heathen incan¬ 
tation he could get the same result. Of course he could—even though those old swords, some of them 
a thousand years old, are still considered without an equal by the posterity of its maker. 

It has been only a little while since our heat treat experts went through with very much the same 
performance. There is only one essential difference—we might have talked about heavenly things when 
it didn’t come out right, but there wasn’t much religion about it. 

There is a wide gulf between the rule-of-thumb methods of yesterday and the modern heat treat¬ 
ing of today. 

Contrary to the impression that seems to be common, there is nothing mysterious about the tem¬ 
pering of steel. It is entirely a matter of a careful analysis of the steel in the first place, with proper 
heating and cooling afterward. 

It is usually sent from the mills by heats, that is, each batch of steel is bundled up by itself as 
it comes from the rolling mill. Then when a piece of steel from this heat is analyzed and tested, its 
properties and composition are known, the proper treatment for the entire batch of parts is determined 
by chemical content. 

Then the engineer has something definite to go on. He does not stop at that. The next step is an 
experimental heat treatment after which a bar is prepared and its resistance to a pulling or “tearing 
apart” test is noted. Then follows a Brinnell and Slearascopic test to determine hardness, and a very 
ingenious test to determine its resistance to sudden shocks or breaking strains. All this work will be 
done in the laboratory that stands just back of the heat treating building. 

Continued on page 122 


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SPECIAL EQUIPPED AMERICAN 16-INCH LATHE 


AMERICAN 16-INCH ENGINE LATHE 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 9!) 

and cents than five beeves. The people of Stearns county and Minnesota have all the respect in the 
world for the cow. They know her true value. She is a money-maker, a bank roll builder, and she is 
coining more and more into her own. 


Center of a Rich Farming Section 

No country is richer than its soil. Farming is the biggest business in the world. The financial, 
industrial and commercial life of the nation is in the hands of the man who tills the soil. When 
trouble comes, when calamity threatens, when the nation is imperiled, the first cry is for food and more 
food—increased production—and the farmer at once goes to work with redoubled energy to save human¬ 
ity. Agriculture, therefore, being the earth’s most vital and important industry, how fortunate the 
city whose tributary country is rich in soil productiveness, rich in climatic conditions, rich in water 
supply and rainfall, possessing all the requirements and all the elements necessary to diversified farm¬ 
ing and stock growing! 


Pa£e 110 















































PUTNAM 30-INCII ENGINE LATHE 



A SECTION OF THE TOOL CRIB 


Saint Cloud is the hub of one of the richest farm and stock districts in the country and has 
never known a crop failure. This last statement will bear repeating in larger type: THE SAINT CLOUD 
DISTRICT HAS NEVER KNOWN A CROP FAILURE. 

The soil is a rich dark loam and sandy loam with a clay subsoil. Twenty good crops of wheat 
have been grown on this soil without any interval of rest for the land or change of crop, and yet the 
productive power of the land remains almost as great as it was the day the sod was first broken. 
Minnesota is known as “The Granary of the United States” and “The Home of the Greatest Flour Mills.” 
These expressions were not coined without cause. They tell briefly the story of the productiveness of 
fertile fields and bespeak a prosperity that is evidenced on every hand. 

Stearns county ranks fourteenth in land area and fourth in population among the 86 counties 
of the state. The greater part of the land area is a heavy black loam. This is especially true of the 
southern and southwestern portions of the county, while in the central and northern portions the soil 
turns to a heavy yellow clay. In the river bottoms, those of the Mississippi and the Sauk, there are 


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DIAMOND POWER GRINDSTONE 


CANTON PORTABLE HOIST CRANE 


DIAMOND POWER TOOL GRINDER 




areas of heavy black sand with rich clay subsoil. The population of the county at the present time is 
approximately 50,000 people; it has an area of 849,990 acres and a total assessed valuation of 824,739,500.00, 
fourth in the state. 

The principal crops are: Wheat 104,447 acres, oats 76,329 acres, barley 24,776 acres, corn 50,967 
acres, rye 16,326 acres, potatoes 4,056 acres, flax 7,776 acres, hay 108,234 acres. Corn, wheat and oats are 
the leading crops and produce wonderful yields. In recent years tobacco growing has been demon¬ 
strated as a safe and profitable crop. In 1917 growers cleared as high as .8300 an acre from tobacco. 

The farmers of Stearns and adjoining counties are lovers of blooded stock and great strides are 
being made in this direction. Besides the numerous herds of pure-bred Shorthorn cattle and the large 
number of Clydesdale horses, for which this section is already widely famous, the hog business is fast 
developing into an industry of the greatest importance. The poultry business is also highly developed 
and is a source of substantial revenue. This is likewise true of the bee industry, there being no better 
honey on the market than that produced in Minnesota. 


Continued on Page 114 






















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A BATTERY OF GOULD AND EBERHARDT SHAPERS 


There are many intricate patterns in die and trimmer blocks which necessitate the use of these delicately adjusted shaping machines of which 

there are live set up. 


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Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued From Page 112 

Minnesota’s Ten Thousand Lakes 

No man can work all the time at top speed and produce the best results. There must be relaxa¬ 
tion, diversion. Both the body and the mind require an occasional outing. It is the law of nature and 
must be obeyed. Without it the human machine becomes sluggish and loses its pep and punch. This 
thought must have been in the mind of the Creator when He brought Minnesota out of chaos, for there 
is not a state in the Union that offers more in the way of real sport. Man’s needs in this respect were 
fully anticipated and Minnesota’s Lake Park Region, along the Great Northern Railway, with its sky- 
blue lakes, its virgin forests, its numerous and beautiful rivers and streams, furnishes the fisherman, the 
vacationist and the sportsman an unlimited choice of diversion. With over ten thousand lakes within 
its borders this is easily and by far the greatest recreation state in the nation. 

Almost every variety of fresh water fish is indigenous to Minnesota’s waters. The large and small 
mouthed bass engage the attention of most fishermen who delight in a real battle, but the Great North- 


Pa£e 114 


























































PEERLESS HI-SPEED HACK SAW 



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ONE OF THE THREE TON OVERHEAD CRANES 


ern pike which closely resembles the muscallonge, the golden pike, the muscallonge itself and the pick¬ 
erel, all give plenty of excitement and adventure, while crappies, that savory pan fish, will help to fill 
the creel and add to the memories of the £>reat “fish fries” for which the state is famous. The speckled 
trout is here also and will make it interesting for all who are looking for a lively time. 

Whether it is fishing or hunting, camping out in the cool woods or on the shores of limpid wa¬ 
ters, bathing and swimming, sailing and boating, or if it is tennis, or golf or sketching, or if it is rest 
and recuperation, there is no spot on the ^lobe that has advantages over Minnesota. Every delight 
that is dreamed of by the active business and professional man of the city is here freely and abundantly 
furnished. The beautiful lake shores furnish ideal locations for summer homes in a climate where the 
seasons are ideal, where robust health is the key-note and where life is worth living. 

Stearns county alone has 80 lakes that are a mile or more long and 125 smaller ones. Many of 
these each season attract tourists and outers from various sections of the country. Besides the Mis¬ 
sissippi the principal streams of the county are the Sauk, Watah, Clearwater and Crow rivers. There 


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NILES-BEMENT-POND 32-INCH LATHE 



ERECTING FORGE POWER PLANT STACK 


arc also many smaller tributary water courses, all of which are not only of value in a recreation sense, 
but are necessary to an agricultural, dairying and stock raising county. 

Minnesota is naturally tbe Mecca of the summer homeseeker. Its climatic, scenic and pisca¬ 
torial advantages are yearly attracting an increasing number of sojourners from all parts of the country. 
Minnesota has five thousand six hundred square miles of water, exclusive of Lake Superior, this being 
a larger water area than that of any other state. It occupies the most elevated plateau between the 
Gulf of Mexico and Hudson Bay, with an average elevation of about 1,000 feet above sea level. Fogs 
and damp weather are practically unknown. The rarefaction and dryness of the atmosphere tend to 
make this the healthiest country on earth. Although there is plenty of warm weather during the 
summer, the heat is not excessive or debilitating. During the hottest days of the season the 
thermometer registers, on an average, from 85 to 90 degrees, and the nights are invariably cool and 
refreshing. 

Continued on page 118 


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A BATTERY OF VERTICAL MILLING MACHINES 

Milling work on the heavy dies such as crank shafts, axles, etc., is done on these big Becker and Milwaukee milling machines. These are two Beckers and 

one Milwaukee set up 


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PRATT & WHITNEY PROFILER BECKER NO. 6 VERTICAL MILLER 

One of a Battery of Three. For Heavy Die Work. 

Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from pa^e 116 

Minnesota’s beautiful highways afford ample pleasure for the motorist. Any one of its summer 
playgrounds can be reached by automobile and any number of delightful trips can be made from these 
resorts over splendid highways. In 191? the Minnesota State Highway Commission expended $3,884,000 
for road improvement and during the present year is expending twice that amount, or $7,700,000. 


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DIAMOND AUTOMATIC SURFACE GRINDER 
For smoothing die block surfaces. 


ONE OF THE BIG HEAT-TREATING OVENS 
In which forgings are tempered. 


Living Conditions are Excellent 


In the midst of plenty, where the great bulk of the population are producers, where practically 
everything that ^oes on the table is raised and ^rown within a radius of a few miles and where there 


























































is every possible transportation facility, living expenses should be reduced to a minimum. They not 
only should be, but in the case of Saint Cloud, they are. War prices do not prevail here to any appre¬ 
ciable extent. Of course there has been some advance, but for the actual necessities of life present 
prices are very little above those of pre-war times. To tell the plain truth, a family can live here on 
slightly more than half the amount it costs to exist in the big cities. The laboring j^eople of Saint 
Cloud are far above the average in intelligence, many of them having been born and reared in and near 
the city. They are well paid, well housed, well clothed and well fed, while their children have the advan¬ 
tages of the best public schools in the country. 

Beautifully situated high on the banks of the Mississippi, where the river makes a sharp turn, 
forming almost a circle, revealing a glorious vista, both up and down stream, with dense foliage mark¬ 
ing the upper reaches to the rapids and the mouth of the Sauk, while to the south are the thousand 
islands that fill the river for miles, Saint Cloud, the metropolis of Central Minnesota, has an ideal loca¬ 
tion for a city of homes. 

Good health, good fellowship and a spirit of optimism are the dominating characteristics of this 
happy, fortunate people. They value their health above all things else and while the location and 


Continued on page 126 


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HEAT TREATING PLANT 



















ANOTHER IMPORTANT DEPARTMENT OF THE DROP FORGE PLANT. 


Well lighted, well ventilated, well planned throughout for the important work to be done in it. The Pan Heat Treating Plant is constructed entirely 

of steel, concrete and glass. 



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LOOKING DOWN CENTER OF HEAT TREAT OVENS THE BLACKSMITHS' FORGES AND ANVILS 

Heat Treating the Forging—Continued from page 109 

If the word goes out that the suspected batch—suspected is used advisedly, as it is treated like a 
suspected criminal until its worth is proved—of steel is suitable for the work in hand it is cut into 
multiples of the object to be made and sent to the Drop Forge Shop where it is heated, forged and 
trimmed. 

Back it comes, no longer in rigid bars but as aeroplane parts, truck parts, hammock hooks, helmets, 
connecting rods—the thousand and one things the world uses in such vast quantities, but its nature 
has changed. Heating and forging has made it coarse in structure and weak. It must be refined 
and made strong again by the proper heating and cooling. 

The parts are placed in the under-fired furnaces or ovens and given the same treatment as the 
original experimental heat treatment. These are of a special design by Pan Heat Treating Experts. An 
ingenious arrangement of lights in connection with the pyrometer or heat registering devices on each 
of the twelve ovens shows at a glance when the heat is at the proper point. Both oil and water are used 

Concluded on page 124 


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INTERIOR OF THE HEAT TREATING PLANT 


This picture taken during 


the equipping of this plant shows the big tempering ovens in which the forgings are placed and hardened to 

withstand the strains they will be subjected to. 



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DROP FORGE>LABORATORY;BUILDING INTERIOR LABORATORY BUILDING DURING CONSTRUCTION 


Heat Treating the Forging—Concluded from page 122 

for cooling as the case in hand demands. This is contained in movable tanks running on tracks, pushed 
to a position in front of the oven to be emptied, and the whole batch raked in. Then comes careful 
examination of each piece and the final O. K. of the inspector. The parts are then ready for the ma¬ 
chine shops or for shipment. 

This process is housed in a building just west of the Hammer shop. The walls are of steel and 
glass, giving an abundance of light even on the darkest and most cloudy days. It is 128 feet long, 65 
feet wide with tile roof. The furnaces are heated with oil from the central supply tank, and tunnels 
or galleries pass under the floors the same as all of the other buildings, leaving the floor space around 
the ovens entirely clear. 

The cooling or quenching vats are kept supplied with cold water from the general water system, 
fed by the big tank near the central Power station, and adequate sewers carry away all waste hot water. 

It is all very matter-of-fact and commonplace. So much heat, so much cooling, a certain response 
to a certain test, a certain result. There is no superstition connected with it. There is nothing spec¬ 
tacular only a sweaty back-aching job all day and every day. 


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ONE OF THE BATTERIES OF HEAT TREATING OVENS 


Somewhat like a baker’s oven in appearance- 


hut a loaf of bread would not hist Ions in them they furnish the intense heat by which the forgings 
and dies are tempered—oil is the fuel. 



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TIIE OIL STORAGE BUILDING 


Saint Cloud—Homo of the Pan—Continued from page 120 


INTERIOR OIL STORAGE BUILDING 


climatic conditions naturally produce strong, vigorous men and women, nothing is overlooked in the way 
of cleanliness and sanitation on the part of those who have in custody the good health of the commu¬ 
nity. As a consequence the city is noted for its low death rate and freedom from disease. From a 
moral standpoint this is an ideal community. Influences that tend to degrade are suppressed and every 
effort is made to supply clean, wholesome entertainment and surroundings for the young and the old. 
The result is that Saint Cloud has a splendid citizenship, composed of broad minded, clear thinking, 
intelligent men and women, whose children are being well trained, well educated and directed into 
paths of industry and usefulness. 

Neither too hot nor too cold, too high nor too low, too wet nor too dry Saint Cloud and contigu¬ 
ous country are not only adapted to the production of great crops and fine stock, but also have the 
elements necessary to the development of the most efficient human machine. In the summer there 
is no extreme heat, such as prevails in the southern and central states, yet the days are long and the 
sun is warm, a condition exceptionally favorable to the growing of corn. The air is comparatively dry 

Continued on page 128 


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ANOTHER VIEW OF TIIE HEAT TREATING OVENS 


Tank cars running on tracks along the line of ovens make the handling of the quenching fluids, oil and water a comparatively simple matter 

in the Pan Heat Treating Plant. 



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EAST SIDE OF DROP FORGE PLANT 


Saint Cloud—Homo of tHe Pan—Continued from pa^e 12f> 

the year round and the cold is not as biting as it is at many points further south. The winters are by 
no means severe and medium weight clothes are sufficient for comfort under all ordinary circumstances. 
In other words, the climate is ideal for health, cold enough in winter to make one’s blood circulate prop¬ 
erly and warm enough in summer to open the pores of the skin and permit the comfortable use of the 
lightest apparel. 

Excellent Transportation Facilities (See Chart “A”) 

Saint Cloud is the railroad center of the Upper Mississippi country, sixty-five miles northwest of 
the Twin Cities. It is 139 1 2 miles by rail from Duluth and only 283 miles by rail from Sioux City, Iowa. 
It is on the main line of two great transcontinental systems—the Great Northern and the Northern 
Pacific, both of which roads operate through trains from Chicago to the coast, which pass through 
Samt Cloud daily. It is the midway station on the Great Northern Sioux City-Dulutli line, giving direct 
rail and water connection with Lake Superior and eastern Canadian points. This easy access to the 
head oi the lakes is highly valuable owing to the fact that it means cheap transportation to all points 


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THE DROP FORGE OFFICE BUILDING 


ONE OF THE FORGE SHOP FURNACES 


in the Northeast and the seaboard. The line to Sioux City gives Saint Cloud direct connections with 
the great Southwest, one of the richest markets in the world, while the two main lines of the Great 
Northern and the Northern Pacific extend to the Pacific coast, putting Saint Cloud in direct touch with 
intervening states and the Canadian Northwest. Saint Cloud is the huh of seven main and branch lines 
and direct connection is made with Winnipeg, International Falls and other points north. Two trunk 
lines supply service between Saint Cloud and the Twin Cities, where direct connection can he made with 
seven of the country’s greatest railroads, reaching out in all directions, east, south and west. 

Direct lines to the north put Saint Cloud in immediate touch with the great forests of the 
state and the products of the big lumber mills are received here at a minimum transportation cost, 
an item of the greatest importance to manufacturing enterprises using lumber of various kinds in 
their product. This is also true in regard to the iron mines and the great steel mills at Duluth. 
Saint Cloud, by means of short, direct transportation, has iron and steel at its very door, being from 
one to two thousand miles nearer the source of supply than any of the manufacturing cities of the East. 

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STEAM BOILER PLANT OF DROP FORGE DEPARTMENT 

In here are housed the big boilers that will furnish power to the hammers. The big self supporting stack shown under construction will carry 

the smoke from underneath the boilers instead of from above. 


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INSIDE TIIE DROP 


FORGE BOILER PLANT 





This photograph taken during the installation of the plant’s equipment shows the three big boilers that will furnish the steam to drive the 

hammers, also the steam-driven blower. 


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THE FORGE PLANT GROUP FROM THE WEST 

From right to loft arc shown Ihe following units: Dio shop, office building, oil storage building, heat treating plant, laboratory building and main forge 

shop. The forgo power plant is located on east side of forge shop and does not show in this photograph. 

Saint Cloud—Homo of tho Pan—Continued from page 129 

It is only seventy miles over the Jefferson Highway from Saint Gloucl to the head of navigation 
on the Mississippi at Minneapolis, and inasmuch as water transportation on the Mississippi river is to 
he more fully developed in the near future Saint Cloud enterprises, by reason of a short haul to the river 
and cheap boat transportation, are within easy reach of the rich markets in the Mississippi valley, as 
well as those of the far South. 

Thus it is that Saint Cloud lias unsurpassed railroad and transportation facilities, enabling manu¬ 
facturers and producers to reach all outside markets on direct lines and at favorable rates. A city that 
is ambitious to become an industrial center can have no greater magnet than the facilities supplied by 
its railroads, its highw ays and its waterways, putting it within easy and cheap access to the raw materials 
used by the manufacturer and giving it the same outlet to the richest markets of the world for its fin¬ 
ished product. In this regard Saint Cloud stands alone. 

Continued on page 134 


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c. 



LOOKING SOUTH IN THE BIG HAMMER SHOP 


This picture was taken from the ten-ton overhead crane which travels the length of the building—Here are shown several of the giant hammers and 

trimming presses that form a part of the equipment. 


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BLACKSMITH FURNACE DURING CONSTRUCTION 


HEATING FURNACE AND AJAX UPSETTER 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from page 132 


Favorable Labor Conditions 


From the standpoint of the manufacturer more favorable labor conditions could not be found. 
Far enough removed from the congested centers to be free from all strikes and labor disturbances and 
in the midst of a thickly populated country whose people are far above the average in intelligence and 
mechanical application, Saint Cloud has never experienced and is not likely to experience any trouble 
along this line. Indeed there is here at this time an almost unlimited supply of material of the best 
type, much of which is mechanically inclined, that can be drawn on and developed into skilled workmen 
as conditions demand. It may be said further that this source of labor supply is largely Scandinavian, 
which means that the district has, in embryo at least, a working population the superior character of 
which is recognized the world over. As an artisan and craftsman the Scandinavian is unsurpassed and 
his steady, dependable habits make of him a most reliable workman. The laboring man who comes here 
from other cities and other states finds conditions in the way of housing, food supplies, recreation, and 

Continued on page 136 


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A SECTION OF TIIE HAMMER SHOP 


Some of the giant hammers and trimmers that are lined up in two rows that run the length of the building—a formidable array of modern giants, 

prepared to do gigantic work. 







































TOLEDO NO. 59 TRIMMING PRESS 
There tire Two of These Machines Set Up 


ERIE 2,000-POUND BLACKSMITH HAMMER 
Imagine It Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pun—Continued from page 134 

schooling for his children so far superior to those under which he existed elsewhere that he is unwilling 
to depart, and if need be would gladly remain in Saint Cloud at a lower wage than he might be able 
to obtain in a less favored locality, realizing that by so doing he would be money ahead in the lone run. 




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TOLEDO NO. 58 TRIMMING PRESS 
There Also Are Two of This Size Set Up 


ERIE 1500-POUND FORGE HAMMER 
Four of these 1500-Pounders are in Place 


What a man makes is important, but no more so than what 
the mechanic, the laboring man and all who make their livin 
combined, as does the skilled craftsman, is the place where labor 


he saves. The best place, therefore, for 
g with their hands or hands and brains 
is well j)aid, where rents are low, where 


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This picture was also taken from overhead crane. Note the tunnel which runs beneath the floor the 

and water pipes are located. 


entire length of the shop—where the steam, oil 


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ONE OF THE AJAX UPSETTERS 
“A Hammer Lying Down”—Shoves Instead of Founding 


10-TON CRANE FOR WAREHOUSE 
This is a Duplicate of the Hammer Shop Crane 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Continued from pa^e 1ST 


the food supply is ample in quantity and reasonable in price and where all other conditions make for 
health and comfort. Such a place is Saint Cloud, and the fact that it is such a place precludes the pos¬ 
sibility of any labor shortage or labor trouble of any kind. 


Minnesota Iron Mines Greatest In W orld 

Minnesota is a portion of a mining province known as the Lake Superior District, comprising the 
states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 1917 this district produced 64,437,003 gross tons of iron 
ore, 97 per cent of which went down the Great Lakes to American and Canadian furnaces. Thirty-four 
million ^i'oss tons of pig iron were made from this output, which is 85 per cent of the entire pig iron out¬ 
put of the country. Fifty-two per cent of this ore is mined by steam shovels from great open pits; 
48 per cent from underground mines. The ore at present is valued at $5.50 to $6.25 per ton when 
delivered at lower lake ports. 

Continued on page 141 



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THE 10-TON OVERHEAD CRANE IN HAMMER SHOP 


1 his giant carrier is electrically operated—Its largo capacity enables it to handle the heavy machinery, 

any part of the shop. 


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material, etc., direct from railroad car to 


































































































TOLEDO NO. 55H GEARED TRIMMER 
All Trimmers are Electrically Driven 



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TOLEDO NO. 55 }'2 TOGGLE TRIMMER 
Two of These are Ready for Operation 


In the Lake Superior District it is estimated that there are about 1,600,000,000 tons of iron ore in 
reserve, containing more than 50 per cent of metallic iron; in addition there is a lar^e tonnage of 
lower grade material, comparable in metallic content with the iron ores of Great Britain. The production 


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TOLEDO NO. 56 TRIMMING PRESS 
Four of These are on Their Foundations 



ERIE 1,000-POUND FORGE HAMMER 
1 he 1,000-pounders Set Up Number Two 


of iron ore from the Lake Superior District is expected to exceed 100,000,000 gross tons during the pres¬ 
ent year. A new record of iron ore production in Minnesota for the present year has been announced by 
State Auditor J. A. O. Preus, who says that the season’s output from state-owned mines alone will be 

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WHERE WATER SUPPLY IS LOCATED 


140 TONS OF RAW STEEL FORGING BARS 


For^e Steam Plant to be Fed From Underground Tank 


Approximately Million and a Quarter Pounds Received to Date 


The Drop For^e Plant—Continued from pa£e 100 

approximate capacity of the plant when fully complete will exceed 1,500,000 pounds of forcings a month 
working only one shift. All but two of the huge concrete foundations, some of them reaching 30 feet 
underground, are in and ready for the setting of the hammers to come. These foundations are topped 
with “cushions” of solid oak timbers, to withstand the tremendous shocks from the hammers. Practically 
all of the trimming presses, one for every hammer, are set up and ready for operation, as are also the 
two ^reat upsetting machines. 

Like in the die shop and forge shop the several other units of the plant impress the visitor with 
their up-to-dateness and size. Everywhere one sees evidence of the foresightedness, skill and energy 
displayed by the builders. For instance, the company did not confine itself to only half-ton, one-ton 
and two-ton hammers in equipping its forge shop. It added four-ton and six-ton giants to its equip¬ 
ment, knowing that in the making of the larger forgings there was the making of greater profits. It 
did not follow precedent in building its heat-treating furnaces. It knew that they could be built better 


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so its heat-treating experts went ahead and designed and built a better type. They cost more, but the 
additional cost is dwarfed into insignificance when compared with their greater efficiency and the better 
quality of forgings that can be turned out. There are a great many other examples of progressiveness 
to he found that will impress the layman as well as the technical expert. 


A glance at the many photographs of buildings, machinery and equipment as shown in this 
book combined with the following list of machinery ordered and to form part of its equipment will give 
the reader a fair idea of how surprisingly big is just one of the many departments of the Pan Motor 
Company. 


1 

2 

4 


2 


1 

1 

6 

1 


of Machinery and Equipment Ordered for the Various Units of the Drop 
For^e Plant in Addition to That Which is in Place as Com¬ 
piled from Purchase Records on Nov. 15, 1918. 


Three-Ton Traveling Crane, Euclid standard, three 
motor, floor operated, variable speed control. 

Solenoid Braker. 

12000-pound Erie Steam Drop Hammers. 

2000-pound Erie Steam Drop Hammers. 

3000-pound Erie Steam Drop Hammers. 

8000-pound Erie Steam Drop Hammers. 

4000-pound Erie Steam Drop Hammers. 

Long & Alstatter size “F” Guillotine type bar shear. 
Having capacity to shear 4 inch square bars. 

Pond 42 inch x 42 inch x 14 feet Planer with 2 heads on 
cross rail and with two side heads. 

Norton No. 831593 Grinding Wheels size 5x114x1 
Grain 46 Grade K Face Record CEB land 1. 

Brown High Resistance Pyrometer, type H. Fig. 19 
with double scale 0° to 1600° F. For Base Metal couple 
scale 0° to 3000° F. for Platinum Thermo couple for 
High Speed Steel treating with four point rotary switch 
and case 52 and 58. 


1 12-inch Platinum Thermo Couple, protected over the 
lower 6 inches with quartz tube and furnished com¬ 
plete with bracket support for furnace. 

1 18-inch Base metal Thermo Couple insulated and pro¬ 
tected over lower 8 inches with nickel Chromium tubes. 

2 15-feet lengths of compensating leads, each connected 
to 25 feet of double conductor copper wire. 

12 Automatic Signaling Pyrometers range 0° to 1200° F. 

12 Automatic Switches for operating signal lights. 

12 Batteries of 3 colored lights complete with sockets 
mounted on frames. 

12 24-inch Nickel Chromium base metal thermo couples. 

1- l-'inch Nickel Chromium protecting tubes for above 
thermo couples. 

12 15-feet lengths compensating leads to carry the cold 
junctions away from furnaces. 

1 Brown Automatic Signaling Pyrometer range 0°-2000° 
F. for Cyanide furnace. 

1 Automatic switch and battery of three lights. 

1 Angle type ol nickel Chromium thermo couple 12x24 
inch. 





















1 



12-inch pure nickel lube for protection to above thermo 
couple. 

1 length 15 feet compensating lead. 

1 Automatic Signaling Pyrometer for lead pot. 

1 Automatic Switch and Battery of three lights. 

1 12x24 inch Nickel Cli romium base metal thermo couple. 

1 12-inch Nickel Chromium protecting tube for protec¬ 
tion to above. 

1 15-feet length compensating leads. 

1 125-K. V. A.—G. E. Transformer Type H.—2200—Pri¬ 

mary 220-440 volt Secondary Complete with Oil. 

1 Trimmer Miller. 

1 25-K. V. A. Single phase type II. Transformer, GO cycle, 

with the following ratio: 2200—110-220 2300—115-230 
2400—120-240. Complete with transil oil. 

1 28-inch “Superior” Vertical Milling Machine complete 
with taper attachment. 

1 Coal Handling bridge, including two clam shell buckets. 

1 Complete track switch complete with all necessary 
current conducting materials. 

1 4000-pound capacity ca^e operated Electric Hoist. 

1 No. 134 Single Stage Centrifugal Air Compressor outfit 
complete. 

1 Pratt & Whitney No. 4 Die Sinking Machine with 
regular equipment. 

1 16-inch x 10 feet Pratt & Whitney Quick Change Gear 
Tool Boom Lathe with regular equipment. 

1 2-inch Acme Single Bolt Cutter complete with Pump, 
Countershaft Wrenches, and Automatic Attachment. 

1 4-inc.h Acme Single Bolt Cutter complete with Pump, 
Countershaft Wrenches, and Automatic Attachment. 
24-inch Gould & Eberhard High Duty Shaper with 
Gear Box, selective type all case hardened gears, vise 
and wrenches, but without countershaft. 


1 


1 Mono Kail Track with Switch. 


132 Items for Chemical and Physical Laboratory 

1 75 H. P. Slip Ring Type Motor 440 V. 3 phase, 60 cycle, 

complete with drum type controller and resistor. 

1 “Toledo” No. 59% Forge Trimming Press. 

1 50,000-pound capacity Olsen new three screw type 

direct motor driven Universal Testing Machine with 
automatic beam. 

1 Lewis Hayes Type Extensometer. 

1 Olsen Hydraulic Brinell Hardness Testing Machine 
No. 2 with Misiascope. 

1 Double Pointed Center Punch. 2 inch Ga. 

Additional List for Other Units of Plant 

1 } 2 -inch Extra Heavy Steam Trap of Sarco Thermostatic 

design. For Elect. Con. Stores. 

1 LeBlond Lathe. Factory No. 2. 

1 Taper attachment for same. For Factory No. 2. 

1 Draw-in attachment with eight collets. Factory No. 2. 

1 14-inch 8 foot Bed Lodge & Shipley 3 steps cone drive 
Engine Lathe with regular equipment. Factory No. 2. 

1 12-inch 4 Jaw Independent Lathe Chuck. Factory 
No. 2. 

1 Pratt & Whitney List No. 305 side mill cutter. Factory 
No. 2. 

1 La Pointe No. 2 Broaching Machine. Factory No. 2. 

1 La Pointe No. 3B Broaching Machine. Factory No. 2. 

1 %-% Cleveland Model “A” Automatic Threading Ma¬ 
chine with tools and attachments. Factory No. 1. 

2 Cleveland Model “A” Automatic Threading Ma¬ 
chine with tools and attachments. Factory No. 1. 

1 %-%> Cleveland Model “B” Automatic Threading Ma¬ 

chine with tools and attachments. Factory No. 1. 







































STEEL SASH IN READY FOR GLASS 

VIEWS OF THE HAMMER SHOP 


FROM THE SOUTHEAST 
DURING CONSTRUCTION 


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NOT A ROUNDHOUSE—JUST UNLOADING 


THE SCRAP BINS AT SOUTH END 



FROM NORTHEAST FROM HAMMER SHOP ROOF 

VIEWS OF THE HAMMER SHOP DURING CONSTRUCTION 


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PLANT OF THE MINNESOTA STEEL COMPANY, AT DULUTH. (SEE CHART B.) 

Representing an investment of about $25,000,000. It lias been announced that four steel fabricating plants, representing $15,000,000 additional are soon 
to be built. This big steel plant is less than 140 miles from Saint Cloud. Universal Portland Cement Company’s plant in foreground. 

nearly 5,000,000 tons, exceeding by over a million tons the previous record. According to Auditor Preus, 
ore shipments from the Superior District up to the first of October had exceeded the tonnage for the 
entire season of 1917, which, as stated above, aggregated 64,437,003 tons and included 45,398,787 tons from 
Minnesota mines. 

“I am confident that the state-owned mines will forward not less than 4,650,000 tons,” says Mr. 
Preus, “and the total may exceed that estimate at the end of the season. The old record of 1916 was 
not broken last year because navigation was open only for a comparatively short time, there was a short¬ 
age of boats and because of other minor reasons.” 

The latest official reports of 1918 ore shipments from state mines, furnished by J. P. Funk of the 
minerals department, with corresponding figures for previous years, afford these comparisons: 

1918, tons shipped, 3,650,000; 1917, 2,608,114; 1916, 2,938,083; 1915, 1,184,419. 

Incidentally, the heavy shipments mean that the state will receive this year more than $1,150,000 
in royalties on ore from state-owned iron mines. 

Iron is the metal of war; the substance that supplies the £nns, the shells and the armor plate. 

No other state in the Union made a more vital contribution toward winning the war than Minnesota 

Concluded on page l/>0 




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THE LARGEST OPEN PIT IRON MINE IN THE WORLD 


This picture £ives some idea of the immense iron ore deposits to he found in Minnesota. This is the Shenanj§o Mine at Hibbing, about 200 miles 

from Saint Cloud, the Home of the Pan Motor Co. (See Chart B.) 


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A TYPICAL MINNESOTA WHEAT El ELD 


Saint Cloud—Home of the Pan—Concluded from page 148 

with its inexhaustible store of iron and manganese ores now produced in such great quantities 
from the Mesaba, Vermillion and Guyuna Ranges. The war time demand for this most essential com¬ 
modity hastened the opening of two new mines on state properties which began shipment a few weeks 
ago, one is the Margaret on the Mesaba Range and the other the Martin on the Guyuna Range. The 
biggest open pit mine in the world is the Shcnango, at Ribbing, Minnesota, where huge steam shovels 
load the ore from the surface, affording a sight of the greatest industrial magnitude. 

The manganese requirements of the steel industry of the United States before the war were met 
largely by imports from high grade deposits in Russia, India and Brazil. The imports from Russia and 
India were cut off early in the war, and the burden of production fell upon the shoulders of domestic 
owners and producers by reason of the United States Shipping Board transferring ships from the 
manganese ore trade to trans-atlantic war service; and this increased demand, imposing a gigantic task, 
has been faced with a smile and the manganese requirements of the nation have been promptly met, 
thanks to the great iron resources of Minnesota and her sister states. And all this great mineral wealth 
is within a few short miles of Saint Cloud, practically in the city’s back yard. 


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"A SERMON IN BRICKS 

T HE Pan Motor Company is a real institution, with real money invested. Its buildings are modern 
and fireproof, with up-to-the-minute machinery and equipment, of steel and concrete construc¬ 
tion, substantial, accurate and correct in detail and harmonious throughout. Maps, drawings and 
photographs, appearing herein, give full details relative to their construction, arrangement and mate¬ 
rial contents. With the exception of the Experimental Building, all were planned by the Works Depart¬ 
ment of the Pan Motor Company and with the exception of the Experimental Building and Factory 
Building No. 2 all were erected by the Works Department. 

To date, the company has expended over one and a half million dollars on buildings, machinery 
and equipment and all are paid for. Paying is a habit with Pan. Its plant is the best that money and 
men can build, comprising fifteen structures in all and covering a ground area of approximately five acres. 

This modern plant, erected and equipped at a cost exceeding the total amount of the capital 
stock of all the banks in Stearns County, Minnesota, of which there are forty-three, is the finest and 
most complete of its kind in the Northwest and one of the most up-to-date in the entire country. 

Besides the vast amount of money this building program has required, the physical and mental 
energy that has been expended is by no means small. Brains and brawn have been on the job con¬ 
stantly, practically day and night, since the great work was started. 

The various buildings comprise the following: Experimental Building, Blacksmith Shop, Main 
Production Unit or Factory Building No. 2, Warehouse, Loading Platform, Main Power House, Pump 
House, Water Tower, Drop Forge Power House, Droji For^e Building, Die Shop, Oil Storage Building, 
Drop Forge Office Building, Heat Treating Plant and Laboratory. 

With all these modern buildings in mind it may be appropriate to state that the real builder 
is one of the country’s greatest blessings. The man who puts one brick on top of another is preaching 
a sermon—a sermon of industry, of progress and prosperity—and his work is just as essential to the 
life of the nation as that of the man who stands in the pulpit. 

If all the bricks in all the buildings in the Pan Motor Company’s plant were placed in a row, they 
would reach from Saint Cloud to St. Paul and back again. And yet bricks constitute a small item in 
the construction of many of the larger units comprising this <§reat plant. 


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1— Experimental Engineering Building 

and Blacksmith Shop. 

2— P'actory Building No. 2. 

3— Works Department Warehouse. 

1—Shipping and Receiving Platform. 


5— Main Power and Light Plant. 

6— Water Tower and Pump House. 

7— Drop Forge Power House and Coal 

Storage. 

8— Drop Forge Hammer Shop. 


9—Die Shop. 

10— Drop Forge Office Building. 

11— Oil Storage Building. 

12— Heat Treating Building. 

13— Metallurgical Laboratory. 

11 Drop Forge Warehouse Site. 












































































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GROUND PLANS 

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Sermon in Bricks—Continued from page 151 


It’s a wonderful sermon these Pan bricks are preaching. It is a long sermon—150 miles from one 
end to the other. It is an eloquent and impressive sermon, and one that any layman should readily 
understand. It means much to the industrial world. It means more to the industrial United States. 
It means most to industrial Minnesota and the thrifty city of Saint Cloud—the Home of the Pan.' 

There are many interesting facts in connection with the building of this huge enterprise. For 
instance, in all its present structures, counting what is to be used in the For^e Plant Warehouse, there 
are 228,265 cubic feet of concrete, which is a lot of concrete and ^ives one a concrete idea of the solidity 
of the company; there are one thousand tons of structural and reinforced steel, over two hundred 
fifty thousand feet of lumber, over one million two hundred thousand brick and tile, over six hundred 





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sixty thousand square feet of composition roofing, eighty-one thousand square feet of cement tile roof¬ 
ing, over sixty-seven thousand square feet of steel sash and glass and over seventeen thousand seven hun¬ 
dred square feet of stucco on metal lath. 

Certainly, this is a vast quantity of building material, the whole comprising some of the country’s 
most modern industrial buildings. Such a program has required a lot of money; it has required a lot of 

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Approximate Quantities of Building Materials Used in Construction of the Present Units 

of the Pan Motor Company Plant 


These figures give some idea of the great quantities of material it takes to construct a big plant like the Pan Motor Company’s. 

It will be noted that figures have been given for buildings under construction as 

well as for those completed 


Building 

Ground Area 
Square 
Feet 

Contents, 

Cubic 

Feet 

Concrete, 

Cubic 

Feet 

Struc¬ 

tural 

Steel, 

Tons 

Reinforc¬ 
ing Steel, 
Tons 

Brick and Tile, 
Number 

Ventilators, 
Size and 
Number 

Lumber, 
Feet, B. M. 

Composi¬ 
tion Roof¬ 
ing, Square 
Feet 

Cement 
Tile Roof¬ 
ing Sq. Ft. 

Steel Sasli 
and Glass, 
Square Feet 

Stucco on 
Metal Lath 
Square Feel 

Radiation, 

Square 

Feet 

Experimental. 

7,592 

148,648 

1,080 





89,000 

8,000 




3,400 

Blacksmith Shop. 

501 

9,072 

405 



Brick, 10,000 
Tile 3,200 


2,000 


700 




Main Factory. 

105,740 

1,903,320 

136,000 


267 

Brick, 34,000 
Tile, 99,000 

38—24 in. 

6—12 in. 


105,000 


41,200 


36,308 

Warehouse. 

5,286 

52,860 






22,000 

5,300 





Loading Platform 

3,000 







33,000 

3,000 





Main Power House 

6,330 

253,200 

10,000 

90 M 

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Brick, 310,000 

2—30 in. 

15,000 

6,400 


1,361 

500 

1,526 

Pump House. 

182 

2,520 

540 

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Brick, 10,000 


600 

200 


30 


84 

Water Tower. 

1,024 

75,000 Gal. 

400 

60 

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Forge Power House 

4,740 

152,000 

22,000 


Brick, 180,000 

4—36 in. 
1—24 in. 
1—18 in. 

10,000 

5,000 


806 


420 

Drop Forge. 

31,400 

1,108,872 

21,000 

363 

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Brick, 30,000 



6,600 

46,000 

22,000 

2,000 


Die Shop. 

10,708 

257,000 

7,000 

56 

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Brick, 200,000 

10—14 in. 

50,000 

11,700 


2,600 

220 

5,740 

Oil Storage. 

1,650 

39,500 

5,600 

4 

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Brick, 28,000 

2—12 in. 

4,500 

2,000 


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486 

For^e Office. 

2,048 

30,720 

1,400 



Brick, 36,000 


16,000 



Glass, 330 

4,900 

576 

Heat Treat. 

8,450 

253,500 

15,000 

60 

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10,000 

6,425 

1,600 


Laboratory. 

1,168 

17,520 

1,200 



Brick, 2.3,000 


9,000 



Glass, 200 

3,000 

350 

Forge Warehouse. . 

22,080 

720,000 

7,000 

170 

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Brick, 230,000 

6—24 in. 


7,200 

24,300 

2,200 

5,500 


Totals. 

211,902 

4,948,732 

228,625 

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275i^ 

1,210,200 

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251,100 

160,400 

81,000 

77,274 

17,720 

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A “GOLD MINE” ON THE PROPERTY! 

It has been estimated by a concrete expert that this gravel pit, located on the plant site, is saving the company $1,000,000 in its building program 
because of the short haul and the fact that at the same time the necessary excavation for the unit to be built on this location 
is beinjS made. The excellent ^rade of gravel found here insures the making of the best grade of concrete. 

Sermon in Bricks—Concluded from page 154 

material; it lias required a lot of labor. But the most surprising feature of the entire project is the 
shortness of the time consumed. All the work has been done in a little over one year—the last year 
of the Great War—the one year which will go down as the period of the least building activity in the 
industrial history of the nation. In such an unfavorable period and in so short a time the Pan Motor 
Company has made this splendid showing, proving that it is a builder of the first magnitude. It 
builds with bricks and steel and concrete and glass. But it is not only a builder of buildings—modern 
in type and design, permanent and substantial in character—but it is a builder of automobiles, and very 
soon of trucks and tractors. These are being built and will be built in accord with the Pan building 
principle, which means that they are being built and will be built the best that money and brains and 
experience and skill can make them. 

It is a principle of Pan to build the best. 

(Also see Charts C and D.) 


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PAN-FEATURE CAR OF THE FUTURE 



T AKING advantage of the temporary lull in automobile manufacturing circles due to restrictions 
brought about by the war, Pan engineers concentrated their attention on the development of the 
1919 Model, or the Pan car of the future. Although the car had been announced early in the year, 
the chassis exhibited at the January and February shows, and plans made for going into early produc¬ 
tion, the engineering staff was glad to have the additional time in which to further develop what is 
considered one of the finest light weight, four cylinder passenger cars designed. 


















































BEAUTIFUL LINES CHARACTERIZE THE NEW PAN 


Several more practical features have been added and in some instances it was found that the orig- 
inal features could be improved upon. Now the Pan engineers believe they have reached the acme of 
perfection in this type of car. 

With the signing of the Armistice in advance of an ultimate peace, with the engineers satisfied 
that their work was ready to turn over to the manufacturing end, and with the lifting of restrictions 
by the Government, steps were immediately taken for an early production. Plans are well under way 
and it is expected that the new Pan will he on the market by next season. 

Unlike the Model “250,” the new Pan will be built complete in its own plant. Production will 
be confined to one chassis which it is planned to equip with touring, roadster and sedan bodies. 







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In a two page article announcing the new Pan, the Automobile Journal, which is claimed to be 
the most widely read owners’ magazine published in the United States, had the following to say in its 
August issue:— 

“The first announcement of a 1919 Model Passenger Gar comes from the Pan Motor Company of 
Saint Cloud, Minnesota, manufacturers of the Pan, and it is of unusual interest, as while the majority 
of makers are continuing their old models, this company is to introduce many new features.” 

Although many new ideas are incorporated in the new Pan, there is nothing radical in its design. 

The most interesting feature of this car is its compact motor. It is of a light weight, high speed, 
four-cylinder type, inches by 5 inches. Both intake and exhaust valves are 1% inches in diameter 


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THE PAN SEATING ARRANGEMENT SIMILAR TO OTHER CARS, BUT— 

in the clear. The over-all length is only 27 inches and the weight is about 400 pounds. Considering 
bore and valve sizes and the unusual amount of water space, the new Pan-Powered motor is considered 
the most compact motor made. 

The intake valves are in the head and the exhaust valves are on the side. The cylinder head is 
removable which leaves both sets of valves accessible. The carburetor is bolted directly to the head and 
the intake manifold is cast integral with the head. The flow of gas from the carburetor is evenly dis¬ 
tributed to all cylinders through the design of intake manifold. Hot air is supplied to the carburetor 
from a passage cast integral with cylinders. 




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The crank shaft is fully counterbalanced by a new device and is a two bearing ball-bearing 
shaft. The crank pins are unusually large for this size of motor, being 2j/g inches in diameter. Due 
to the use of ball bearings and the special counterweight, a very compact and rigid barrel type crank 
case is employed, being cast en bloc with the cylinders. 

The intake and exhaust valves are opened by the same cam shaft; the cams are integral with the 
shaft which is carried in three babbitt bearings. The intake valves are operated through straight push rods. 

Thermo-syphon water circulation is used, the water entering at the center of the left side of the 
cylinder block and leaving from the front end at the top. There are large water jackets all around the 
motor and free water circulation around spark plugs and valves. 

Continued on page 169 


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TURN LOCK BOLT ON EACH 
SIDE TO RELEASE BACK 
OF FRONT SEAT 


3 ENGAGE ROBE RAIL 
BRACKETS WITH 
FOOT RAIL 


4 SHOVE FRONT CUSHION 
BACK 


DETAILS OF “TOURIST-SLEEPER” BODY AND HOW IT IS OPERATED 
















































FRONT AND REAR VIEWS “TOURIST SLEEPER” MODEL 


Pan—Feature Car of the Future—Continued from page 167 

Lubrication is of constant level circulating system. The reservoir is in the aluminum oil pan 
which is readily removable—and due to the type of sod pan used is exposed to the air which results in 
the oil being kept very cool. 

The gasoline is supplied through gravity system, the tank being located in the cowl. The filler 
cap is conveniently located under the hood. 

The motor is designed so that any standard type of starting and lighting equipments with S. A. E. 
flanges can be mounted. Battery ignition is used. Any make of distributor using the S. A. E. standard 
distributor mounting can be used* Headlights are adjustable so that light can be thrown on the engine 
or along the sides of the car. 


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THE PAN SEDAN IS TO BE EQUIPPED WITH SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENT 

The clutch is an eight inch, single disc, dry plate and the transmission is a standard, three speed 
type, fitted with ball-bearings and provided with a lock to hold the gears in neutral. 

Another clean-cut feature of this car is the design of brakes. The emergency brake is mounted 
on the rear of the transmission case and the service brake is on the rear axle, both brakes being internal 
and enclosed, making them practically dust-proof. The emergency brake is 10 inches in diameter and 
2V 2 inches wide. The service brake is 12 inches in diameter and 2 3 4 inches wide. A self releasing 
emergency brake lever is used. 

The rear axle is of the three-quarter floating type and both front and rear axles are equipped with 
Timken bearings. The rear axle ratio used is 5 to 1. 


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In a series of road tests this car has been driven on high gear at a speed of from less than 3 miles to 
60 miles per hour. Considering the extremely low gear ratio this is a remarkable performance. Due to 
the use of Lynite pistons and counter balanced crankshaft, there is practically no vibration at any speed. 

The spring suspension is semi-elliptic in front and semi-elliptic employing Hotchkiss drive in rear. 
This car is exceptionally smooth riding and holds the road at high speed, due to its balance and use 
of long springs; the front spring being 36 inches long and the rear being 50 inches long. Spring center 
distance at the rear is 42 inches. 

The frame is of a deep channel construction, being 6inches deep. The spare tire carrier is of 
very light and rigid construction and is equipped with a special tire lock. 

Continued on page 173 




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FOOD COMPARTMENT 


FOOD AND REFRESHMENT 


REMOVABLE ICE 


ICE COMPARTMENT 

COVER REMOVED 


COMPARTMENT 


COMPARTMENT 


COVER REMOVED 



PANDOLFO COMBINATION COMPARTMENT TANK REGULAR EQUIPMENT OF PAN 







































Pan—F eature Car of the Future—Concluded from pa^e 171 

With the exception of the front axle spindle bolts, steering gear and rear-axle wheel hearings, there 
are no grease or oil cups on the car, self-lubricating bushings being used throughout. 

The wheel base of this car is 108 inches, and due to the compact motor design, there is as much 
body room on this chassis as in the average 115-inch wheel-base car. The general appearance of this 
car would lead one to believe that its wheel base is much larger. It has a road clearance of 11 inches. 
The tires are 33 by 4. 

A rather unique but practical feature of the 1919 Pan that will soon prove itself indispensable to 
the motorist who wants the utmost in comfort and convenience is the Pandolfo Sleeping-Car Body. By 
simply turning two lock bolts the back of the front seat can be dropped down on a level with the rear seat 
cushion forming a bed that for size and comfort is not equalled by the average hotel bed or Pullman 
berth. In designing this body, E. C. DeSmet, body designing engineer, carried out the ideas furnished 
by the president of the company. 

The Pan is also equipped with the Pandolfo combination-compartment tank at the rear, allowing 
one to carry a reserve supply of gasoline, oil and water. There is also a compartment for tools and a 
compartment for provisions, cold drinks and ice. The weight of the car fully equipped is approximately 
2,300 pounds. 

In the opinion of many, Pan of 1919 is another excellent example of Pan foresightedness—another 
evidence of Pan progressiveness—another indication of Pan possibilities. 



THE PAN COUNTERBALANCED CRANKSHAFT 







































BRIEF SPECIFICATIONS PAN OF 1919 


MOTOR: Pan design, 4-eylinder, 3 1 2 inch bore, 5 
inch stroke, actual horsepower 45-50. 

CARBURETOR: Either Stromber^ or Zenith, 1 
inch horizontal type. 

IGNITION: Remy distributor, closed circuit type; 
6-volt, Gould battery. 

LIGHTING: Auto-Lite. 

STARTING: Auto-Lite. 

COOLING: Thermo-Syphon. 

TRANSMISSION: Pan design, selective type; three 
speeds forward and reverse. Shafts mounted 
on ball bearings. Gear ratios, direct drive on 
high, 4.9 to 1; intermediate 10 to 1; low 19 ! 4 to 
1; reverse 15jbt to 1. 

CLLTTGH: Borg & Beck; standard 8 inch dry plate 
disc. 

FRONT AXLE: Pan design, Timken bearing equip¬ 
ped. 

REAR AXLE: Pan design, three-quarter floating, 
Timken bearing equipped throughout. 

SPRINGS: Rear, Hotchkiss drive, semi-elliptic, 
2 inches wide, 50 inches long. Front, semi-ellip¬ 
tic, 1% inches wide, 36 inches long. 

FRAME: High carbon, pressed steel; depth of 
channel section 6bg inches. 


BRAKES: Emergency brake internal expanding, 
mounted at rear of transmission case. Serv¬ 
ice brake, internal expanding, mounted on rear 
wheels. Both brakes enclosed and dust proof. 

DRIVE SHAFT: Standard Spicer universal joints, 
tubular construction. 

STEERING GEAR: Gemmer, worm gear type. 
Control, center. 

WHEEL BASE: 108 inches. 

TREAD: Standard. 

WHEELS: Second growth hickory, artillery type, 
12 spokes front and rear, Firestone demount¬ 
able rims. 

TIRES: 33x4 all around; non-skid on rear. 

ROAD CLEARANCE: 11 inches. 

BODY: Five passenger, Pandolfo ‘ ‘Tourist-Sleeper’ ’ 
Model, also Sedan and Roadster. 

TOP: One man type equipped with side curtains 
opening with doors. 

EQUIPMENT: Boyce moto-meter, Stewart-Warner 
speedometer, electric horn, complete set of 
tools, tire pump, jack, tire carrier in rear; Pan¬ 
dolfo combination compartment tank. 

WEIGHT: 2,300 pounds fully equipped. 



































CARBURETOR SIDE OF THE PAN POWER PLANT 

Showing how carburetor is bolted direct to the head, location of the spark plugs, and how conveniently accessible 
are all parts. Simplicity, accessibility and compactness are features of the Pan engine. 



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DYNAMOMETER TESTING THE PAN-POM'ERED MOTOR 


No guesswork goes in motor manufacturing—The engineer is “from Missouri”- His motor must prove its worth—nothing escapes this critical machine. 

Some interesting facts concerning the Pan Motor are shown on the test charts appearing on another page. 


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PROVING THE POWER OF PAN 

I T is not everybody that knows what the horsepower curve of an internal combustion motor is. 
Whether the instrument of measure is the obsolete Prony Brake, the more up-to-date Fan Dynamome¬ 
ter, or the still more advanced Electric Cradle Dynamometer, this curve will enable one to determine 
very quickly some of the qualities of the engine. 

To obtain this curve consider a horizontal line OX (See Chart No. 1) on which is marked the 
angular speed of the engine measured in revolutions per minute (R. P. M.) and indicated by an electric 
tachometer attached to the dynamometer. Consider also a vertical line OY on which is registered the 
corresponding horsepower (II. P.) of the engine taken from the reading of the dynamometer scale by a 
very simple calculation. Draw at different points lines respectively perpendicular to OX and OY, the 
intersection of those lines will permit the drawing of the horsepower curves. 

The horsepower curve of the Pan 1919 motor was obtained with a Sprague Electric Cradle Dynamo¬ 
meter. Sparing the reader the rather technical description of this apparatus, it simply provides a very 
accurate and reliable means of measuring the power of an engine and generally proving its points of 
superiority or inferiority, if such there be. 

The examination of the horsepower curve will immediately give valuable indications. Note first 
that the curve is a perfectly straight line up to 1400 revolutions per minute. This shows that the power 
is proportional to the angular speed of the engine (R. P. M.) and immediately displays the advantages 
of the Pan’s large valves and proves without doubt that the volumetric efficiency is maximum and to 
use a common expression, that the motor “breathes” well and is well “fed.” 

Another glance at the curve will show that the maximum horsepower of practically 50 H. P. is 
developed at 3000 R. P. M. which is also the best proof of the perfect balance of the engine and its 
complete lack of vibration. 

The continuous climbing tendency of the curve gives the reason for the tremendous get-a-way 
of the 1919 Pan car itself and explains why this car, according to the expression of many who ride in 
it, is “chuck full of pep.” 



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The torque curve, shown above the horsepower curve on the chart, was also charted from the reading on the 
dynamometer scale and tells just how the motor is pulling under wide open throttle at given speeds. The theoretical 
and ideal torque curve would in reality be a perfectly straight horizontal line. This curve is impossible to obtain in 
practice; however, it is the aim of all motor designers to produce an engine that will come as near to this ideal as possible. 

In order to emphasize the splendid characteristics of the Pan 1919 motor, it has been compared with a standard 
and well known motor manufactured by one of the leading motor manufacturers in this country. The curve on chart 
2 refers to a four cylinder, by 5 “L”-type motor, that has a j^-inch larger bore than the Pan engine. A very 
superficial examination will show that this engine develops its maximum power of 33 horse at 2000 revolutions per min¬ 
ute, while the Pan engine develops at this same speed 38 horsepower and does not reach its maximum of 49 3 ^ until 3000 
revolutions per minute are recorded. In regard to the torque curve, note that the Pan torque curve is a great deal closer 
to the ideal straight line than the other one, and further, that the Pan motor pulls its maximum load at 1400 revolu¬ 
tions per minute and continues pulling almost this same load up to 2200 revolutions per minute. Translating it in ordin¬ 
ary language, the Pan car will pull an even load at almost all speeds ranging from 15 to 60 miles per hour. 


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The drawing at the left shows the method of crankshaft balance, jjosition of both valves and carburetor bolted direct to cylinder head. The 

sectional side view on the ri^ht shows the lar^e crankshaft ball bearings; larj§e water jackets around 

all parts, the camshaft and valve assembly, etc. 


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EXHAUST SIDE OF THE PAN POWER PLANT 


An inspection of the right side of the Pan motor again impresses one with its sim 
compactness and accessibility. Note how the gasoline tilling cap 
is conveniently located under the hood. 







































EXHAUST SIDE WITH TOP GOV Eli AND SIDE PLATE REMOVED 




Showing the arrangement and accessibility of the valves and the manifold cast 
integral with the head. Rocker arms and straight push rods 
operate both the intake and exhaust valves. 






















































Showing single disc, dry plate type of clutch; standard type of selective transmission, but fitted with ball bearings and 

provided with lock to hold gears in neutral; emergency brake on drive shaft and 
self-releasing brake lever—all of Pan design. 




DETAILED DRAWING OF PAN CLUTCH AND TRANSMISSION 


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The Pan rear axle is of the three-quarter floating type and is equipped with Timken bearings; exposure of braking 


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and water is eliminated in this design. 





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INISTRATION 











































































BOARD OF DIRECTORS 




W&H-- 


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S. C. PANDOLFO 

Founder, President and General Manager 


AT TIMES it is impossible to put one’s thoughts 
f_\ and feelings into type—impossible to do one’s 
-A- subject justice. Such is the situation now. There 
is something about the board of directors of the Pan 
Motor Company that does not lend itself readily to 
description and the writer wishes he could take the 
reader by the arm and introduce him to each member 
of the board personally. Nothing further would be 
required to convince him of the splendid type of men 
who are directing the destinies of this ^reat project. 
There is not one of the dozen on the board who is not 
four-square, who cannot shake you by the hand, look 
you in the eye, and by his conversation and demeanor, 
demonstrate to your entire satisfaction that he is “all 
wool and a yard wide,” that he is the identical person 
he pretends to be on a hundred per cent basis. They 
are bankers, business and professional men who are 
actively interested in the enterprise they have backed 


Samuel Conner Pandolfo was born on a farm at Macon, Miss., 1874; 
attended Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., 1892-1894; principal of 
schools two years in Alabama. Emigrated to Texas 189(5 and became prin¬ 
cipal at Lindale, Tex., high school. Principal of schools three years in 
Texas. Went to New Mexico 1909 and became superintendent of public 
schools, Los Cruces, N. M.; was in school work 7 years, then went into com¬ 
mercial life; was head bookkeeper and credit man for M. 11. Goldenberg 
Co., Tucumcari, N. M., later entering the real estate and general insurance 
business. Concentrated on life insurance 1904 and built up one of the 
largest life insurance general agencies in the world, covering Arizona, New 
Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Retired from life insurance work March, 
191(5, to organize and build the Pan Motor Co. 


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with their reputations. All hut two of them live in 
Saint Cloud and have their interests here and here¬ 
abouts. They meet regularly every week and as often 
as is necessary between. Some of them were born here. 
They are the reliable, dependable type of men—every 
last one of them. They are successful and mature in 
years and judgment. They do not lend their names 
and influence to enterprises other than the most sub¬ 
stantial. They are hard workers, loyal to their asso¬ 
ciates and square dealers. They do not shirk duty or 
responsibility and when they go on the job they mean 
business. They are behind the Pan Motor Company 
with their whole hearts and souls, with their money 
and their might. As they have been successful per¬ 
sonally and individually, they will be even more so unit¬ 
edly. It is the law among men, as well as among states 
and nations. The Pan directorate is a twelve-cylinder 
organization, a powerful human engine, and is mak¬ 
ing the grade on high, because every cylinder is func¬ 
tioning. Coordination performs wonders. Here, then, 
is the Pan secret—unity of brains, energy, money and 
a worthy purpose—a successful combination. 

Study their pictures—look them over critically— 
inspect their features—analyze their characters—read 
their minds and hearts, if you can; observe their 
records—note the work they are doing, the positions 
they hold, their standing in the business and finan¬ 
cial world; and then make up your own mind as to the 
kinds of men they are. As they look out at you from 
these pages you must be impressed with their intelli¬ 
gence, their powerful personalities, their self-confi¬ 
dence, their grim determination. Twelve real men. 


Pa£e 1SS 



Born in Penn., 1857; president Chas. F. Ladner Hardware Co., Saint 
Cloud, and Retail Hardware Merchants’ Fire Insurance Co. and Hall 
Hardware Go., Minneapolis; vice president, Saint Cloud Iron Works and 
Miner lheatre Co., Saint Cloud; director Security State Bank and Com¬ 
mercial Club; county chairman Public Safety Commission; Liberty Loan 
director for Stearns County. 









































JOHN BARRITT 
Secretary 

Born in England, 1879; specialized in higher accounting under English 
chartered accountant; secretary-treasurer and chief accountant for Bush- 
worth Bros., Ltd., Engineers, Colne, England; came to America, 1908, to 
accept like position with Avery Scale Co., Milwaukee, Wis., a branch of 
W. & T. Avery Co., Ltd., Birmingham, England; was the founder and 
president Cheyenne (Wyoming) Business College. 





CHARLES U. SCHWAB 
'i'reasurer 


Born in Minn., 1872; president Farmers State Bank, Saint Cloud, 
and First State Bank of Clear Lake, also president Farmers Loan and 
Investment Company, of Saint Cloud, a hundred thousand dollar cor¬ 
poration. Mr. Schwab is quite wealthy, owns valuable farm and ore 
lands and is one of the most substantial bankers and business men of 
Minnesota. 


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HUGH EVANS 

Born in South Bend, Minn., 1859; high school and business education; 
came to Saint Cloud in 1900 and organized the Saint Cloud Grocery Com¬ 
pany, one of the large and prosperous wholesale firms of Central Minn., 
of which he is president; director of the Commercial Club; was mayor of 
Saint Cloud for two terms. 



FREl) SCHILPIN 

Born at St. Joseph, Minn., 18f>8; is secretary-treasurer of the Saint Cloud 
Daily 1 imes; one of the owners of the Security Blank Book and Printing 
Company of Saint Cloud, a modern and up-to-date establishment; the 
Associated Press member here and is postmaster of Saint Cloud. He is a 
thoroughly capable and successful business man, and a real live wire. 



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GEORGE E. HANSCOM 

Born in Stearns County, Minn., 1872; received high school and business 
education; graduate Northern Indiana Normal School; president Mer¬ 
chants National Bank, Saint Cloud, and First State Bank of Stewartville; 
vice president State Bank of Mayer, State Bank of Watertown, State Bank 
of Maple Plain, State Bank of Long Lake, and Farmers and Merchants 
State Bank of Sedan. 


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CHARLES BUNNELL 


Born in Canada, 1857; came to Minn, in 1887; was identified with N. P. 
Clark lumber and stock business and is now trustee for the Clark estate; 
treasurer Saint Cloud School Board; director Commercial Club; trustee 
Elks Lodge and director Elks Home Fund Association. He is one of the 
substantial business and stock men of Minnesota. 


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P. R. THIELMAN 


Born in Saint Cloud, Minn., 1872, and is a splendid example of home¬ 
grown success, lie is a large real estate operator; director of the Saint 
Cloud Farmers Stiite Bank and secretary and treasurer of the Farmers 
Loan and Investment Company, a hundred thousand dollar corporation. 
He is a scientific and successful stock farmer and large land owner. 


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GEORGE 11 El DM AN 


Graduated from the Law College of Cincinnati University in 1895 and 
admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio in the same year. Opened 
offices in Cincinnati and later his firm also had offices in New York. He 
is one ot the country’s most successful patent attorneys. Located in 
Chicago in 19(b as senior member of the firm of lleidman & Street. 



















H. C. ERVIN, Jr. 

Born in Penn., 1886; educated Saint Cloud high school and University 
of Minn, ^director, secretary-treasurer and manager Saint Cloud branch 
The H. C. Ervin Co., one of the leading flour manufacturers of Minn.; 
director and vice president Beltrami Elevator & Milling Co., Bemidji, 
Minn.; director Merchants National Bank, Saint Cloud. Ervin’s Best is 
one of the most famous brands of flour. 



NORMAN A. STREET 

Born in Chicago, 1876, and has lived there ever since; graduate of Yale 
University and Northwestern University Law School. He is the son of a 
wealthy lumberman and a member of the law firm of Heidman & Street, 
successful Chicago attorneys, legal representatives of the Pan Motor Com¬ 
pany, specializing in corporation practice, patent law and trade marks. 


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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 


ALL success is of human origin. The greatest achievements are the work of man. Brains are be- 
hind every industry, large or small, and the quality and character of the brains determine the ulti¬ 
mate success of the enterprise. Human energy is the greatest power in the world. Final victory 
in the great war just ended was on the side of the sturdiest characters and the best thinkers. It is 
not guns nor food nor money nor men that brought the Hun to his knees. Indomitable manhood, 
unswerving devotion to the principles of right and justice, stalwart character and clear thinking, these 
were the forces upon which the nation relie and through which it achieved success. 

So, in the industrial world, it is not money, it is not buildings and equipment, it is not location, 
it is not resources and facilities, it is not one or all of these combined that plays the leading role in the 
building and operation of a great enterprise. The human force, the brain power, the mental and phys¬ 
ical energy of the organization, these are the deciding elements and where they are well supplied the 
victory is won. 

It is doubtful if a more high class, evenly balanced organization was ever assembled than the one 
now directing the destinies of the Pan Motor Company. Headed by its founder and president, S. C. 
Pandolfo, one of the country’s greatest organizers and executives, who has surrounded himself with men 
of wide financial and business experience and others possessing the highest type of ability in all the 
various branches of the automobile industry, this company has already astounded the world with 
its marvelous speed and splendid achievement. It is only fair to state that the story of a year as told 
in this book in word and picture has been made possible solely through the intelligence, foresight, en¬ 
ergy and actual genius of Mr. Pandolfo and his faithful associates. They are the real power, the real 
force back of the Pan and with the momentum already gained it will be a comparatively easy matter 
to forge on and on until the last trench is won and the flag of Pan floats proudly over an American in¬ 
dustrial institution, second to none, with its output in the markets of the world, giving comfort and 
service to the progressive and appreciative people of all nations. 


























J. H. McQUERRY 
Assistant to President 


B. BRATTER 
Sales Manager 


B. F. FORSYTH 
Advertising Manager 



C. W. BATTLEY MANUEL SHERRY C. W. WILLIAMS 

Traffic Manager Purchasing Agent Assistant Advertising Manager 


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B. E. LANG WORTH Y 
Assistant Purchasing Agent 


F. C. CARVER 

Assistant Secretary to the President 


CIIAS. T. LAZZARI 
Foreign Secretary 






J. B. McGOLRIGK 
Information and Reception 


W. A. FURLONG 
Assistant to Secretary 


G. E. TEAGUE 
Circulation Manager 






































MRS. FLORENCE COLEMAN 
Company Postmistress 


BO WESTMAN 
Internal Auditor 


H. W. MURPHY 
Traveling Auditor 


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ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING CORPS 


T HE goods, the product, the output is the final test of any manufacturing enterprise. This is emphat¬ 
ically true of the automobile, truck and tractor business. The whole burden of permanent success 
is on the shoulders of the engineering and manufacturing staff and that is why the Pan management 
lias been so particular in selecting its mechanics and skilled workmen in all branches of the industry. 
They are among the best in the country and what they do is done right. When they turn out a job 
it is finished, complete in every detail, nothing omitted, nothing included that should not be. The Pan 
product is made and will be made as good as it can be made, because it is and will continue to be the 
work of the best engineering and mechanical experts who can be obtained. The Pan car says to its owner: 
“I w T ill take you to the place you are going; I wall do all that you expect me to do, and more; I know 
but one duty and that is to serve you; you may depend upon me; I am reliable; that is the way I am 
built; my constitution is strong; I am equal to any task; I obey you cheerfully; your comfort, your 
pleasure and your convenience are my religion; that is the kind of an automobile I am.” 

It takes brains, experience and skill to build a car that can say to its owner: “Depend on me,” 
and then live up to its promise to the last fiber of its being. The Pan plant has the brains, the expe¬ 
rience and the skill and the Pan product is delivering the goods in that very manner. 

What a satisfaction to know that the machine you are using is right; to know that the men who 
built it are right; to know that the company manufacturing it is right, and to know that you yourself 
are right in the purchase and possession of such a car. 

If there is any doubt in the mind of the reader as to the high character of the Pan engineering 
and manufacturing corps that doubt may be readily dispelled by a study of the type of men holding lead¬ 
ing positions in these departments. Every one of them has a record bristling with achievement in his 
particular field. Every one of them is holding his job on account of his special fitness, by virtue of his 
experience, his training and his native talent. Every one of them is ambitious, anxious to give to the 
company the best that is in him, loyal and conscientious to the core. Look them over, read their rec¬ 
ords, and then say whether or not they are capable of performing their duties to the last letter. 



































VICTOR GAUVR EAI T 


L. R. BROWN 


A. KRIEG 


Chief Automobile Designing Engineer 


Manager of Manufacturing 


Chief 'L'ractor Designing Engineer 


Mr. Gauvreau is one of the most experi¬ 
enced and one of the most capable designings 
engineers in the country. lie is a graduate 
of both the Fortiers Technical High School 
and the Arts et Metiers Technical College of 
France and a member of the Society of Auto¬ 
motive Engineers. Prior to his connection 
with the Pan Motor Company Mr. Gauvreau 
was on the engineering staff of such well 
known companies as the Peuget, Mercer, 
Chevrole t and Weston-Mott. lie was research 
engineer on the Buick and designer of the 
Dodge; also the designer and builder of the 
famous Frontenac racers. His expert serv¬ 
ices are highly valued by the Pan manage¬ 
ment, as they mean much to the future suc¬ 
cess of the company. The best engineers 
design and build the best machines. Such 
being the case, the ultimate Pan should have 
no superiors. 


Mr. Brown has had an exhaustive experience 
in practically every branch of the motor in¬ 
dustry from the smallest job to the manager¬ 
ship. lie had charge of special sales for the 
Seager Engine Works, Lansing, Mich., and 
was superintendent of the Neway Motor 
Company. lie spent eight months of his 
own time in Detroit, Cleveland, and Toledo 
learning the methods of operations of produc¬ 
tion, also tooling and lining up of machinery 
and assembling for production and the per¬ 
sonnel of the organization in the various 
automobile, truck and tractor plants. He 
was general superintendent and assistant fac¬ 
tory manager of the Duplex Truck Company, 
and general superintendent of the Republic 
Truck Company, where he tripled production 
in one year. He was supervising the produc¬ 
tion of the Ordnance Department for the 
government in the Detroit district prior to 
coming with the Pan. 


Mr. Krieg is one of the foremost tractor 
engineers in America and is regarded as an 
authority on the tractor. He is a graduate 
in mechanical engineering and a member of 
the Society of Automotive Engineers. He 
came to the Pan Motor Company from the 
Emerson-Brantingham Company, with whom 
he was associated for seven and one-half 
years as chief engineer of the Tractor Works 
anti for whom he designed several highly 
successful machines. Mr. Krieg was also 
associated with the Westinghouse Air Brake 
Company, the Twin City Rapid Transit 
Company and the Fawcus Machine Company 
in various engineering capacities. He also has 
four years of practical shop work to his credit. 
With Mr. Krieg on the job the Pan tractor is 
destined to take a leading position among 
the best tractors of the future. Of this there 
can he no doubt. 


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R. J. FITNESS 

Assistant Automobile Designing Engineer 

Mr. Fitness came to the Pan Motor Com¬ 
pany after thorough training and wide expe¬ 
rience. He was educated at the Detroit Tech¬ 
nical Institute, Detroit, Mich., and has been 
on the engineering stafT of such well known 
companies as the Cadillac, Packard, Stude- 
baker, Dodge Brothers, Continental Motors 
and Nordyke and Marmon. He is, therefore, 
well equipped for his present position with 
the Pan Motor Company through early tech¬ 
nical training and practical knowledge ob¬ 
tained in the leading plants of the country. 
Mr. Fitness is a member of the Society of 
Automotive Engineers and is also one of the 
valued members of the Pan engineering corps. 
In him the company has another highly 
capable engineer who is ambitious and whose 
industry and mechanical genius are such as 
to guarantee for him a position of leadership 
in his chosen profession. 


R. A. DeVLIEG 
Methods Engineer 

Mr. DeVlieg is a member of the Society of 
Automotive Engineers and has held the fol¬ 
lowing positions prior to his coming with the 
Pan: Tool maker for the Olds Motor Co., 
Lansing, Mich.; tool maker and mechanic 
for the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., 
Detroit; draftsman for the Universal Motor 
Truck Co., Detroit; tool designer for the 
Cadillac Motor Co.; instructor in machine 
shop practice in Detroit evening high school 
four years; checker in engineering depart¬ 
ment, later assistant chief draftsman, still 
later chassis engineer and finally chief engi¬ 
neer ordnance division of the Dodge Brothers 
Motor Co.; chief engineer in charge of the 
machine and tool designing department 
Kearney A: Trecker Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 
Such is the wide experience of Mr. DeVlieg. 
In the face of this splendid record who can 
deny his efficiency. 


M. V. TERRY 

Superintendent of Production 

Mr. Terry came to the Pan from the Buick 
where he was mechanical engineer and de¬ 
signer of motor cars, trucks and engines. He 
was also truck designer for the Packard and 
axle and brake designer for the Weston Mott 
Company. He spent four and a half years 
with the Champion Ignition Company and 
rose from tool, die, gauge and special machin¬ 
ery designer to assistant engineer, and later 
chief engineer. He is a graduate of the Uni¬ 
versity of Michigan where he received his 
degree of mechanical engineer. He holds a 
commission as Captain in the Engineer Offi¬ 
cers Reserve Corps, and is also a member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi¬ 
neers. He is in charge of Factory Building 
No. 2, main production unit, where Pan cars 
are now being turned out. He knows his 
business thoroughly and is delivering the 
goods in a most satisfactory manner. 


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H. E. LAMBERT 


JOSEPH NELSON 


E. C. DeSMET 


Chief Draftsman, Tractor Dept. 


Experimental Engineer 


Body Designing Engineer 


Mr. Lambert is chief draftsman in the 
tractor designing department and is well qual¬ 
ified to perform the duties of that responsible 
position. He received technical training in 
the Mechanical Engineering College of the 
LTniversity of Minnesota and has had plenty 
of practical experience while holding impor¬ 
tant positions on the engineering staff of 
such concerns as the Diamond Iron Works 
and the Jessen Engineering Company of Min¬ 
neapolis, the Llewellyn Iron Works of Los 
Angeles and the National Paper Box Company. 
Thus schooled and thus trained, he came to 
the Pan Motor Company and has made good. 
He is another able member of the efficient 
Pan staff. He is also a member of the Soci¬ 
ety of Automotive Engineers and is one of 
the most capable meix in his line in the 
United States. It is this type of ability that 
insures permanent Pan success. 


Mr. Nelson has had wide automobile expe¬ 
rience with some of the best companies in the 
country and is well equipped for the position 
he holds with the Pan Motor Company. He 
has charge of the experimental engineering 
department and is the right man in the right 
place. He was associated with Mr. Gauvreau, 
chief designing engineer of the company, in 
designing and building the famous Fronte- 
nac racing cars. He was also connected with 
the Maxwell and the Buick companies and 
directed in the building. and designing of 
their racers. He is not only well trained in 
the business, but has a capacity and a genius 
for the work, which enable him to obtain 
desired results promptly. Mr. Nelson is a 
wide-awake young man and is giving his 
best thought and his best energy to the posi¬ 
tion he now holds with the Pan Motor Com¬ 
pany. 


Edgard C. DeSmet, body designing engi¬ 
neer for the Pan Motor Company, graduated 
with honors from the Industrial College of 
Ghent, Belgium, and studied body design¬ 
ing with Van den Plas, Brussels. He was a 
draftsman for the Locomobile and the Dodge 
companies and has made a fine record in his 
department of the automobile industry. Mr. 
DeSmet is the designer of the Pandolfo sleep¬ 
ing car body, which is the regular touring 
body for the “1919” or ultimate Pan Car, one 
of its highly valued and most attractive fea¬ 
tures. He has other top and body ideas 
which are practical and which, when fully 
developed, will doubtless prove of great value 
to the manufacturers and much convenience 
to the public. Mr. DeSmet is a young man 
with a good, clear head and has a promising 
future in store for him with the Pan Motor 
Company. 





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G. W. ROGERS 
Body Finisher and Striper 

Mr. Rogers has had about twelve years 
active experience in his line, serving four 
years with the D. F. Isaacs Carriage Company 
of CofTeyville, Kansas, as a carriage painter; 
three years with the Kansas City Southern 
Railroad Company at Pittsburg, Kansas, as 
a coach painter; three years with the Packard 
Missouri Motor Company of St. Louis, Mis¬ 
souri, as a body finisher; one year with Jones 
Motor Car Company of Wichita, Kansas, as 
body finisher, and one year with the Pan 
Motor Company ns finisher and striper. Mr. 
Rogers is a thoroughly capable mechanic 
and is a varnish expert of recognized ability. 
His long experience and natural talent for 
the work fully qualify him for the important 
position he holds. As a matter of fact, he 
could scarcely have a better or more favor¬ 
able and satisfactory record. 


F. A. GUSTAFSON 
Superintendent Paint Shops 

Mr. Gustafson got his first experience with 
Monroe Brothers, well know carriage builders 
of Illinois, and later went to Chicago, work¬ 
ing for some of the oldest carriage firms in 
the state. He was with the Thomas Scott 
Carriage Company of St. Paul and the Mansor 
Tibbet White Elephant Buggy Company of 
St. Louis, later known as Deere A; Mansor, 
for whom he was assistant manager for five 
years, and two years as foreman in the paint 
shop. He was striper and ornamentor for 
the Pope Toledo Car Company, Toledo, O., 
and later went to the Velie Motor Car Com¬ 
pany, Moline, Ill., acting as superintendent 
of their paint shops, for both pleasure car 
and truck plant, for nine years. While there 
he laid out and installed one of the most 
up-to-date paint shops in the country. From 
Moline he came to Saint Cloud and joined 
the Pan. 


M. SHARRON 
Enameling Expert 

Mr. Sharron holds a responsible position, 
one requiring experience and skill of the high¬ 
est character, and one that only a man of 
the most thorough training is qualified to 
fill. The Pan Motor Company has in its 
enameling expert just such a man. He is 
widely experienced and has a natural talent 
for the work that gives his services exceptional 
value. lie was formerly in charge of the 
enameling department of the Velie Automo¬ 
bile Company of Moline, Ill. He was also in 
charge of the painting department of the 
Western Tube Company of Kewanee, Ill., 
and of the Allis-Chalmers Company, Mil¬ 
waukee. Just prior to coming with the Pan 
organization, he completed the installation 
of the enameling system of the Jones Motor 
Car Company, Wichita, Kansas. He is, there¬ 
fore, fully qualified and well equipped to 
meet all the requirements of his position. 









































W. STAUFFACHER 
Foreman Block Test 


O. H. HANSEN 
Factory Employment Manager 


GEORGE STONE 
Chief Automobile Inspector 


Got his first experience with the Hart Parr 
Company of Charles City, Iowa, serving two 
years on the erecting and assembling floor, 
one year in the testing anti finishing depart¬ 
ment and three years on the road as service 
man and on sales. On leaving the Hart Com¬ 
pany he accepted a position as foreman of 
the Minneapolis Steel A; Machine Company 
of Minneapolis, Minn., in the testing and 
experimental departments. While there he 
made two trips to Texas on new tractors 
being tried out; and besides their own trac¬ 
tors, motors, lighting plants and other ma¬ 
chines using motors for power, five hundred 
large tractors for the Case Company of 
Racine, Wis., and about 5,000 Bull Tractors 
for the Bull Tractor Company passed through 
his department. He had been with this com¬ 
pany about five years when he came to the 
Pan. Mr. Stauffacher is making good. 


The position of employment manager is a 
highly important one in an enterprise hav¬ 
ing the magnitude of the Pan Motor Company. 
It not only requires training and experience 
in dealing with men, but also a natural abil- 
ity to judge and handle skilled workers. The 
successful employment manager holds a vital 
position in modern industries and is doing a 
splendid work. Mr. Hansen fills this office 
for the Pan in a most satisfactory manner, 
lie was formerly with Rathbone, Lard & 
Company, stove works, where he was time¬ 
keeper and paymaster for four years and later 
had charge of the receiving department and 
stock room. This work prepared him for the 
greater work he is now doing for the Pan. 
He has been with the company almost from 
the first and the high standard of its em¬ 
ployees bespeaks his ability as factory em¬ 
ployment manager. 


Was born in Franklinville, N. Y., in 1889, 
and has been in the automobile business 
since 1909, in which year he embarked in the 
garage business for himself, conducting the 
enterprise successfully for three years. He 
then joined the Packard forces, holding an 
important position in the inspection depart¬ 
ment. In 1916 he was with the Elgin in a 
similar capacity and in 1917 he was on motor 
repairs for the Overland service in Buffalo, 
N. Y. He has thus had wide and continu¬ 
ous practical and manufacturing experience 
in the automobile industry and is partic¬ 
ularly fitted for the important position he 
now holds and has held with the Pan Motor 
Company since December 1, 1917. Mr. Stone 
is doing exceptionally good work and has 
brought his department to a degree of effici¬ 
ency which insures the best possible results. 
He has the true Pan idea of doing things. 
























































J. A. KEENE 
Foreman Pattern Shoji 


M. N. SCHNETTLER 
Foreman of Automobile Assembly 


JOHN POORERA 
Foreman Service Department 


Mr. Keene has the usual record found 
among the members of the mechanical and 
engineering staff of the Pan Motor Company. 
He was foreman of the pattern shop) of the 
National Iron Company, Duluth, Minn., for 
seven years; J. A. Seek Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, Chicago, five years; Universal Pattern 
Machine Works, Minneapolis, one year. In 
addition to the above positions, he has done 
pattern making for the following concerns: 
Horton Manufacturing Company, Minne¬ 
apolis; Allis-Chalmers Company, Milwaukee; 
Clark-Osborne, Erie, Pa. He was also fore¬ 
man of the pattern shop of the Monitor Drill 
Company, St. Louis Park, Minn. Mr. Keene 
belongs to the highest and best class of 
skilled workmen and as foreman of the Pan 
pattern shop} is making a new and enviable 
record, which not only means individual suc¬ 
cess but the furtherance of Pan success. 


Mr. Schnettler is a well trained and widely 
experienced automobile man. Besides mak¬ 
ing the subject a special study, being a grad¬ 
uate of Rahe’s Automobile Training School 
at Kansas City, Missouri, he has had six years 
of actual experience with some of the best 
companies in the business. He was connected 
with the Hupmobile people for two years and 
later was with the Velie Automobile Com¬ 
pany for three years, from which position 
he came to the Pan Motor Company about 
a year ago. In his position here as foreman 
of assembly he has made good, his experience 
and training having proven to be of very great 
value to both himself and the Pan Motor 
Company. It is this character of expert 
talent that is placing the Pan car in the front 
rank of moderate priced automobiles and 
that may be relied upon to keep it there. 
Mr. Schnettler is an enthusiastic Pan fan. 


Mr. Pogreba is another Pan Motor Com¬ 
pany employee of ripe experience, having been 
connected with the McCadden Machine Works 
of Saint Cloud from 11)12 to 11)11 inclusive, 
making pistons and McCadden leakless pis¬ 
ton rings for high powered machines and 
racing cars. He has been identified with the; 
automobile business in various capacities for 
several years. His experience as a mechanic 
and his wide range of automobile knowledge 
and information are particularly valuable to 
him in his present position as foreman of 
the service department. He is a valuable 
man to the Pan Company. He has the 
energy and the necessary push to back his 
experience and training and is conducting 
his department according to the most ap¬ 
proved and up-to-date methods, to which are 
added original and practical ideas of his own. 
He knows his business well. 


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II. J. CATER 
Chief of Guides, Factory 


Mr. Cater is a wealthy retired farmer and 
was formerly in the banking business. He is 
too full of life to be idle and the position as 
chief of guides at the great Pan plant just 
suits him. He is a Saint Cloud product, 
knows the city and country hereabouts, is 
thoroughly familiar with the factory and its 
equipment, having seen it started and 
watched its rapid development to the present 
moment. He is affable and takes particular 
delight in supplying the visitor with the 
fullest and most complete information rela¬ 
tive to the wonderful machinery housed in 
the various units of this great modern plant, 
of which he together with the rest of the 
staff are justly proud. Mr. Cater takes great 
interest in his work and is imbued with the 
genuine Pan spirit. He has great faith in 
the future of the company and is a faithful, 
loyal employee. 



JOSEPH PELARSKE 
Maintenance Foreman 

While the position Mr. Pelarske holds is 
not one of the first importance it requires a 
special type of ability inherent in few people. 
Inefficiency and neglect in his department 
is intolerable and for that reason he has 
been placed in charge as maintenance fore¬ 
man in recognition of his experience in a 
similar position with the Great Northern 
Railway Company Car Shops at Waite Park, 
Minn., where he gave complete satisfaction 
and left a good, clean record. Mr. Pelarske 
knows his duties and the duties of those who 
are working under him and makes it his busi¬ 
ness to see that all details are looked after 
promptly and in the manner required in a 
modern, up-to-the-minute industrial plant. 
He spent thirty-five years of his life on a 
farm, which has been more or less true with 
many of the most prominent and capable 
men of the country. 


WILLIAM GRIEBLER 
General Stock Keeper 


Mr. Griebler spent twenty years of his life 
in the hardware, tinsmith and pump busi¬ 
ness, mastering it in all its various details. 
He then went on the road as cigar salesman, 
which position he held for eight years. Quit¬ 
ting the road, he entered the service of the 
City of Saint Cloud as a member of the fire 
department, remaining five years. These long 
terms in different lines have given him a wide 
experience which enables him to perform his 
presen t duties with the Pan Motor Company 
greatly to his credit and to the best interests 
of the company. His position is a responsi¬ 
ble one and requires a man of considerable 
business training and the ability to handle 
innumerable details systematically and with 
dispatch. Mr. Griebler is such a man. An 
honest, conscientious worker, having con¬ 
stantly in mind the best interests of the com¬ 
pany, he is rendering a valuable service. 


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A. R. SMITH 


JOHN D. BOYLE 


IIEXRY RAD EM AKERS 


General Manager, Drop Forge Department 


Metalurgist, Drop Forge Dept. 


Superintendent Die and Forge Shop 


Mr. Smith is recognized as one of the lead¬ 
ing drop forge experts in the country. He 
was general superintendent of the five forg¬ 
ing plants of the Maxwell Automobile Com¬ 
pany; general superintendent of forging for 
the United States Motor Company, and gen¬ 
eral superintendent of the Anderson Forge 
& Machine Company, where he turned out 
as much work in one shift as was previously 
done in two, which is a remarkable record. 
He was also connected with the Waverly Com¬ 
pany, Indianapolis, and at another time with 
the Erie Foundry Company. His great ex¬ 
perience and exceptional ability make bis 
services invaluable to the Pan Motor Com¬ 
pany, as general manager of its drop forge 
department. In fact Mr. Smith is regarded, 
and rightfully so, as one of the best on the 
efficient Pan force, llis record in the drop 
forge business is one to be proud of. 


Attended the Mining and Mechanical Insti¬ 
tute, Freeland, Pa., and worked in the black- 
smithing, forging and heat treating depart¬ 
ments of Coxe Brothers Company, Drifton, 
Pa. Was on heavy gun forgings in the heat- 
treating department of the Bethlehem Steel 
Co., and later was transferred to the metalur- 
gical, estimate and production departments. 
While with the Bethlehem Company he spent 
nearly three years in the service of the govern¬ 
ment in the Panama zone as master mechanic 
and mechanical inspector. He installed and 
was in complete charge of the heat-treating 
plant of the Chalmers and later was with the 
Anderson Drop Forge & Machine Company 
of Detroit as foreman of their laboratory and 
heat-treating department and in charge of 
their metalurgical department. He left the 
Anderson Company to come with the Pan 
Motor Company. 


Attended Academy of Fine Arts and Tech¬ 
nics, Rotterdam, Holland, three years; studied 
mechanical engineering Armour Institute, 
Chicago, five years; has made a speciality of 
die-sinking and drop forge work for twenty- 
eight years. lie was foreman of the experi¬ 
mental department of the Vaughan-Bush- 
nel Tool Works, Chicago; die-sinker with the 
Chicago Drop Forge & Foundry Co.; super¬ 
intendent of die and forge departments of 
the Waverly Electric Automobile Co., Indian¬ 
apolis, and later with Fenkle & Sons Co., 
Chicago; returned to the Chicago Drop 
Forge & Foundry Co. as chief inspector, and 
later became general foreman; was estimator 
for drop forge work with Whitman & Barnes, 
Chicago, and was with the Anderson Drop 
Forge & Machine Co. of Detroit as foreman 
of the die shop prior to his connection with 
the Pan Motor Company. 








































F. F. TAYLOR 

Sales Manager, Drop For^e Department 

Mr. Taylor has made steel, bought steel, 
sold steel and knows steel, having spent 
15 years in the steel, automobile and drop 
forging business. Ilis experiences in steel¬ 
making cover one year with the United Engi¬ 
neering <!v Foundry Co. of Pittsburg and two 
years with the Monarch Steel Casting Co. 
of Detroit. He was in the buying end of the 
business for the Continental Motors Co., 
the Packard Motor Car Co., the Lozier Motor 
Car Co., and the Detroit Steel Products Co., 
all of Detroit. Prior to his connection with 
the Pan Motor Company he was for four 
years with the Anderson Forge & Machine 
Co. of Detroit in the production and sales 
department. Mr. Taylor is a practical drop 
forging expert. There are few men in the 
country having the comprehensive steel in¬ 
formation possessed by Mr. Taylor. lie 
knows it from all angles. 


FLOYD S. MILLER 

Superintendent of Construction and Main¬ 
tenance, Drop Forge Dept. 

After leaving school Mr. Miller became a 
machinist, devoting three years to the trade. 
He then took up structural steel construc¬ 
tion with the Vincennes Bridge & Construc¬ 
tion Company, remaining in that line of 
business with the same company for about 
eight years, lie was then advanced to the 
position of master mechanic, in which capac¬ 
ity he served the same company six years 
longer. He was in the employ of this com¬ 
pany about fifteen years, all together, when 
he resigned to {5o with the Anderson Drop 
For^c & Machine Company of Detroit as 
their millwright foreman, remaining eight¬ 
een months. He left that concern to come 
with the Pan Motor Company, and his record 
here is in harmony with his experience, 
training and practical knowledge as a hij§h 
class machinist who knows his business well 
and who works conscientiously. 


W. H. WAYMAN 

Production Manager, Drop Forge Dept. 

Mr. Wayman is another able and experi¬ 
enced member of the prod uction and manufac¬ 
turing stall’ of the Pan Motor Company who 
has a good record and whose services are 
highly valued by the company. Before com¬ 
ing to the Pan as production manager he was 
connected with the Warner Gear Company 
of Muncie, Ind.; the Anderson Forge & Ma¬ 
chine Company, and the Harroun Motor Com¬ 
pany in similar capacities. Mr. Wayman is 
peculiarly fitted for his line of work both by 
nature and training and it is extremely doubt- 
fid if a better man could be found any where 
in the country to fill the important position 
he holds with such marked ability and such 
general satisfaction. His department gives 
evidence of being under the supervision of 
a master hand and the results obtained fur¬ 
nish ample proof that he is the right man 
for the position he holds. 



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E. F. CAMPBELL 

Special Automobile Mechanic, Die Shop 

Mr. Campbell has had about twenty years’ 
experience in his line. For two years he was 
connected with the Gaar-Scott Machine Com¬ 
pany of Richmond, Indiana, as machinist. 
From this position he went to the Manitoba 
Iron Works, Winnipeg, Canada, in the same 
capacity, remaining one year. He then en¬ 
tered business for himself and for four years 
operated a general machine repair shop at 
Lonjj Prairie, Minnesota. Disposing of this 
business, he came to Saint Cloud and entered 
the employ of S. Tenvoorde as general auto¬ 
mobile repair man, holding this position for 
twelve years. He then came to the Pan 
Motor Company and is a valuable acquisi¬ 
tion as special mechanic in the die shop. 1 le 
brought to his position many years of ex¬ 
perience and practical training which he is 
now drawing on and which enables him to 
render the best of service in his line. 


L. R. PORTER 

Stock Keeper, Drop Forjje Dept. 

Mr. Porter was formerly traveling salesman 
for C. B. Henschel Manufacturing Company 
of Milwaukee, Wis., and is a thoroughly cap¬ 
able and experienced man. He has been with 
the Pan Motor Company almost from the 
first and has held other important positions, 
always performing his duties conscientiously 
and in a systematic, business-like manner. 
He is, therefore, not only a capable man in 
the abstract meaning, but is especially val¬ 
uable to the enterprise in his present posi¬ 
tion, having in charge all raw stock and die 
storage materials while in process of produc¬ 
tion. He is peculiarly fitted for this work, 
which requires constant application and strict 
attention to details. His is a work that calls 
for native ability more even than experience 
and this is the quality with which Mr. Porter 
is especially endowed. His record with the 
company proves it. 


HARRY ANDREWS 
Foreman of Die Shop 


Mr. Andrews is a well seasoned, high class 
man with a record that bespeaks competency 
and efficiency of the broadest and best type. 
After completing his schooling, he took up 
tool making as a trade, continuing in this 
line for about eight years. He spent six 
years with the Toledo Tool «Si- Machine Com¬ 
pany, Toledo, Ohio, as a die maker. He was 
with the Anderson Drop Forge & Machine 
Company, Detroit, Michigan, as a die sinker 
for ten years. He was in charge of the trim¬ 
mers for this company for three years. He 
left the Anderson Drop Forge & Machine 
Company to join the Pan forces and has 
proven a highly valuable man to this com¬ 
pany. As foreman of the die shop, Mr. 
Andrews is giving the highest satisfaction 
and is getting the right results. He keeps 
constantly in mind the best interests of the 
company and is well liked by his associates. 







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J. D. CLARK 
Trimmer Die Maker 


E. L. JACKSON 
Die Sinker 


B. F. WATTS 
Die Sinker 


Mr. Clark was with the Maxwell Motor 
Company, New Castle, Ind., for one year and 
the Imperial Drop Forging Company, Indian¬ 
apolis, two years. He was also with the 
Anderson Drop Forge & Machine Company 
and Detroit Drop For^e Company of Detroit 
and the Indianapolis Drop Forge Company 
of Indianapolis. He held a position as ma¬ 
chinist with the Hercules Gas Engine Works 
and the Bucyrus Steam Shovel Works, Evans¬ 
ville, Ind., and the Lyon Atlas Engine Works, 
Indianapolis. In addition he has had ex¬ 
perience in automobile production work with 
the Chalmers Motor Company. Thus he has 
had a well rounded experience and comes to 
the Pan Motor Company fully prepared to 
perform all the duties devolving on him as 
trimmer die maker. He takes a personal pride 
in the high quality of the service rendered by 
the Pan engineering and mechanical staff. 



Mr. Jackson’s first position was with the 
Fairbanks-Morse Company of Indianapolis 
for whom he worked as a tool maker. He 
was with the Keyless Lock Company of In¬ 
dianapolis in the same capacity. He held a 
position in the Frankford Arsenal, Philadel¬ 
phia, as a trimmer maker and an apprentice 
die sinker for three and a half years. He was 
with the Union Switch & Signal Company of 
Swissvale, Pa., as a die sinker for two years; 
the Cleveland Axle A: Manufacturing Compa¬ 
ny of Cleveland for one and a half years; the 
Imperial Forging Company of Indianapolis 
for nine months, and the Anderson Forge 
and Machine Company of Detroit for one 
year. He then joined the forces of the 
Studehaker Corporation and when that com¬ 
pany began the erection of the 155 M.M. 
shell shop, Mr. Jackson was made super¬ 
intendent of construction and equipment. 


Mr. Watts was educated in the public 
schools of Indianapolis and took a three year 
course in high school manual training. His 
first position was with the Waverly-Electric 
Automobile Company, Indianapolis, as an 
apprentice die sinker under A. R. Smith and 
Henry Rademakers. After six years with this 
company, he went to Newcastle, Indiana, 
and worked for the Maxwell Company, re¬ 
maining one year. Returning to Indian¬ 
apolis, he held positions with the Indianapolis 
Drop Forge and the Imperial Drop Forge 
Companies, covering a period of two years. 
He was with the Dodge Brothers for a time 
and spent over two years in the employ of 
the Anderson Forge Machine Company, 
from which position he came to the Pan 
Motor Company which he says has one of 
the largest and most modern drop forge 
plants in the country. 



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LEON H. MILLER 
Die Sinker 


E. H. GERTZ 
Die Sinker 



A. J. WILLIAMS 
Die Sinker 




Mr. Miller occupied a position as tool 
maker with the Republic Iron & Steel Com¬ 
pany of Muncie, Indiana, with whom he re¬ 
mained for one year and six months. He 
then entered the employment of the Warner 
Gear Company, also of Muncie, remaining 
three years. He was die sinker with the 
Dean Forge Company of Muncie. This posi¬ 
tion he held for three years. He then went 
to the Maxwell Motor Company of New Castle, 
Indiana, remaining two years. He was with 
the Overland Axle Company of Canton, Ohio, 
one year and eight months, the Imperial Forge 
Company of Indianapolis, seven months, 
and the Anderson Forge & Machine Company 
of Detroit one year and six months. He left 
the Anderson people to join the Pan as a tool 
maker and drop forge die sinker. While 
working at his trade, Mr. Miller completed 
a course in mechanical engineering. 


Mr. Gertz was a machinist in the employ 
of the Brown Hoist Machine Company, 
Cleveland, Ohio, and was on die work with 
the following concerns: Cleveland Hardware 
Company and Columbia Hardware Company 
of Cleveland, Ohio; Timken Axle Company 
and the Anderson Drop Forge Machine Com¬ 
pany of Detroit, Mich. He was with the 
above companies eigh t years in the aggregate, 
six of which was spent as a die sinker. His 
record before his connection with the Pan 
Motor Company was that of a high class 
mechanic and conscientious worker. Since 
coming to Saint Cloud he has consistently 
maintained that high reputation and has 
made an enviable place for himself on the 
mechanical staff of this up-and-coming com¬ 
pany. It is upon the type of workers repre¬ 
sented by Mr. Gertz that this enterprise 
largely depends for its future success. 


Mr. Williams has had a wide experience in 
his line. He was trimmer and die maker 
for two and a half years with the Anderson 
Drop For^e & Machine Company of Detroit, 
Michigan, prior to his coming with the Pan 
Motor Company. He had previously held 
the position of trimmer and die sinker with 
the Detroit Forge Company, Detroit, Michi¬ 
gan, where he remained one year; Timken 
Detroit Axle Company, Detroit, Michigan, 
one year; Pontiac Drop Forge Company, 
Pontiac, Michigan, one year, and the Domin¬ 
ion Forging & Stamping Company, Walker- 
ville, Ont., one and a half years. This gave 
Mr. Williams six years of drop forging and 
die making experience before his connection 
with Pan. His work is high class and shows 
evidences of thorough training and true 
mechanical skill. He has the Pan spirit and 
gives the company the best that is in him. 


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P. G. DEPEW 

Receiving and Shipping Clerk 


A. C. PETTERS 
Tool Maker, Die Shop 


F. M. DERRY 
Die Sinker 


Mr. DePew, was in the railway mail service 
for six years, which experience did much to 
broaden and quicken his comprehension of 
his present duties with the Pan Motor Com¬ 
pany. He also had road experience, travel¬ 
ing for the Drake Marble & Tile Company of 
Minneapolis. He was for a time connected 
with the Boyd Transfer Company of Minne¬ 
apolis. Later he was receiving and shipping 
clerk for the Presto-Lite Company at St. 
Louis Park, Minn. He held a like position 
with the Monitor Drill Company at St. Louis 
Park and for the Fiske Rubber Company of 
Minneapolis. He was with this last named 
company when he decided to cast his lot 
with the rapidly growing Pan Motor Com¬ 
pany as its receiving and shipping clerk, a 
position his years of training and his natural 
aptitude had prepared him to fill in a most 
satisfactory manner. 


Mr. Petters holds his position on account 
of his special fitness for the work. He got his 
training in positions requiring the widest lat¬ 
itude and the most comprehensive knowledge 
of the business, such as machinist for the 
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company, 
Minneapolis; the Grundman Auto Company, 
Saint Cloud, and the McCadden Machine 
Works, Saint Cloud. In this last position, he 
had charge of all tool and jig work. Being 
apt and having a mechanical mind of un¬ 
usual acuteness, Mr. Petters has developed 
into a high class, expert machinist. In his 
present position as tool maker in the die 
shop of the Pan Motor Company, he has 
given the best of satisfaction and his services 
contribute largely towards maintaining the 
high standard of workmanship already well 
established by the mechanical and engineer¬ 
ing forces of the Pan Company. 


Mr. Derry’s experience dates back ten years 
when he first entered the employ of the Day- 
ton Motor Company, Dayton, Ohio. Since 
that time, he has held important positions 
in his special line with the following widely- 
known companies: Maxwell Motor Com¬ 
pany, New Castle, Ind.; Hercules Forge Com¬ 
pany, Imperial Forge Company, Downey- 
Milford-Shields Company, and the Waverly 
Company, Indianapolis, Ind.; Michigan Forge 
Company, Pontiac, Michigan,; Anderson Drop 
Forge & Machine Company, Timken Axle 
Company and Dodge Bros. Company of 
Detroit. He resigned his position with the 
last named company to come with the Pan 
Motor Company. It would be indeed hard 
for a man to obtain a wider or more thorough 
experience and training in drop forging and 
die making than has been afforded Mr. 
Derry through the above positions. 




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GEORGE BOOTH 


J. M. ALDEN 


PAIL RE ITER 




Works Managing Engineer 


Chief Draftsman, Works Dept. 


Mechanical Engineer, Works Dept. 


George Booth was factory mechanical engi¬ 
neer for the Buick and was formerly designer 
for the Welch Motor Company, Pontiac, 
Michigan. He worked in like capacities for 
the Palmer-Bee Company, Detroit; Goodman 
Manufacturing Company; Davy Brothers, 
Sheffield, England; Hick-Hargreaves & Com¬ 
pany, Bolton, England, and other prominent 
concerns. He graduated from the Preston 
(England) High School and served a seven 
years apprenticeship with Markham & Com¬ 
pany engineers. Chesterfield, England. As 
Works Managing Engineer the Pan Motor 
Company has in Mr. Booth an exceptionally 
efficient and highly valuable man, well trained, 
with wide experience and marked ability. 
His record since coming with the Pan is one 
of which he may feel justly proud. Mr. 
Booth meets every requirement of his exact¬ 
ing position and ^ets the best results. 


Mr. Alden has had an active experience in 
his line covering a period of seventeen years 
in the following positions: Two years as 
draftsman with Omeyer & Thori, architects; 
one year as draftsman with Thomas G. 
Holyoke, architect; two years as draftsman 
in the engineering department of the Great 
Northern Railway; six years as chief drafts¬ 
man with J. Walter Stevens, architect; and 
six years in architectural practice as a mem¬ 
ber of the firm of Alden & Harris, architects, 
all of St. Paul, Minn. He discontinued the 
partnership in April owing to unfavorable 
conditions imposed by the war and shortly 
afterwards entered the employ of the Pan 
Motor Company. lie has specialized in 
structural and reinforced concrete engineer¬ 
ing and heating and ventilation. His long 
experience and natural aptitude have made 
him highly proficient. 


Paul Reuter received a technical education 
in one of the foremost schools of Europe 
and is a man of wide experience and much 
native mechanical ability. He designed auto¬ 
matic machinery for a New York incline rail¬ 
way and was one of the leading designers for 
the Dodge Brothers Company of Detroit, 
Michigan. One of his recent important jobs 
before coming to the Pan Motor Company 
was the erection of six modern electric gan¬ 
try cranes in the United States Navy Yards. 
His early training, his ability and his record 
are in harmony with the usual Pan Motor 
Company standards and his work as mechan¬ 
ical engineer for the company has been highly 
satisfactory, possessing the qualities of the 
expert. But nothing less was to be expected 
of a man who had behind him such a splendid 
record in mechanical engineering achieve¬ 
ment. 








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Chief Operating Engineer 


Foreman Electrical Production 


Chief Engineer Power Plants 


Mr. Becker is one of the best posted steam, 
electric light and power men in the North¬ 
west, having had many years of experience 
in this line of work in connection with some 
of the largest and most efficient plants in the 
state. He organized, financed and managed 
the Foley Electric Light and Power Company 
in 1911 and in 1916 disposed of the business, 
selling out to the Saint Cloud Public Serv¬ 
ice Company. He supervised the building 
of a high line for the Globe Electric Company 
of Milwaukee and at one time was assistant 
chief operator of the Twin City Rapid Transit 
Company. He was also connected with the 
Minneapolis General Electric and the Con¬ 
solidated Milling Company. This wide and 
varied experience has served to equip him 
with the necessary engineering knowledge 
required in the important position he now 
holds'with the Pan Motor Company. 


Mr. Tyler has been in the electrical busi¬ 
ness practically all his life. He was employed 
for six years by the Bell Telephone Company 
and for four years of that time was wire chief. 
He was with the Allis-Ghalmers Manufac¬ 
turing Company for three years on construc¬ 
tion and maintenance, and was night chief 
electrician for one year with the A. O. Smith 
Automobile Parts Company. For two years 
he was with the Watab Pulp and Paper Com¬ 
pany of Sartell, Minnesota, as armature 
winder and general repair man. This varied 
experience, covering a period of twelve years 
with leading and well known companies, has 
equipped him thoroughly for his present im¬ 
portant position with the Pan Motor Company. 
Mr. Tyler is a clean cut, clear-thinking, am¬ 
bitious young man and is giving his best 
energies to his present work. He is getting 
good results. 


Mr. Sullivan has had twelve years’ exper¬ 
ience on power plant work. He was employed 
by the Bridgeman-Russel Company of Duluth, 
Minnesota, for three years as assistant engi¬ 
neer, and was assistant engineer at the Min¬ 
nesota State Reformatory for nine years. In 
addition to his practical experience he has 
completed a correspondence course in steam 
engineering with the International Corre¬ 
spondence School of Scranton, Pa. He came 
with the Pan Motor Company August 1st, 
1918, and as chief steam engineer in the main 
power plant is rendering efficient and satis¬ 
factory service. Mr. Sullivan is a practical 
man and has also mastered the theoretical 
side of the steam engineering science. Con¬ 
sequently his knowledge of power plant work 
is thorough and complete. The Pan Motor 
Company has in Mr. Sullivan a highly capable 
steam engineer. 





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Page 214 










































































GENERAL OFFICES 

























































T HE various factory heads of the Pan Motor Company have their offices at the plant, while the general offices 
cf the company are located in the downtown section of Saint Cloud. Those of the president, traffic man¬ 
ager, advertising manager and publicity department occupy the entire third floor of the First National 
Bank Building; the secretary’s offices and the auditing 
department are on the second and third floors of The 
Farmers’ State Bank Building, while the mailing and 
circulating departments are located at 218 Fifth Ave. 

South, where they occupy two floors and the basement, 
or the entire building. This arrangement is temporary 
and will obtain only until such time as the company 
can erect its own office and administration building at 
the plant, as contemplated in the original plans. 

Concluded on path* 2 17 


HOARD OF EDUCATION BUILDING, 


218 FIFTH AVENUE SOUTH 


Entire building occupied by the Company. 


FARMERS’ STATE BANK BUILDING, 18 FIFTH AVENUE SOUTH 
1 he first offices of the Company were located here. 
















































































■■ 







OFFICE OF PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER 
First National Bank Building 



ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE SECRETARY’S DEPARTMENT 
First National Bank Building 



EXECUTIVE RECEPTION AND SECRETARY 
First National Bank Building 



EXECUTIVE STENOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT 
First National Bank Building 


Piute 217 

































































OFFICE OF ADVERTISING MANAGER 
First National Bank Building 



ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER'S OFFICE 
First National Bank Building 


Page 218 




OFFICE OF SALES MANAGER 
First National Bank Building 


SALES AND ADVERTISING STENOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT 
First National Bank Building 










































































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Farmers’ State Bank Building 



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SECRETARIAL DEPARTMENT 
Farmers’ State Rank Building 


OFFICE OF FOREIGN SECRETARY 
Farmers’ State Bank Building 


FILING DEPARTMENT 
Farmers’ State Bank Building 


COMPANY POST OFFICE 
Farmers’_State Bank Building 




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CHIEF AUDITOR’S OFFICE 
Farmers’ State Bank Building 



SECTION OF AUDITING DEPARTMENT 
Farmers’ State Bank Building 




TRAFFIC STENOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT 
First National Bank Building 


SECTION OF AUDITING DEPARTMENT 
Farmers’ State Bank Building 



Page 221 










































































OFFICE OF TRAFFIC MANAGER 
First^National Bank Building 



ADDRESSING DEPARTMENT 
Board of Education Building 


Page 222 


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OFFICE OF CIRCULATION MANAGER 
Board of Education Building 



GOVERNMENT ENVELOPE STORAGE 
Board of Education Building 


























































MAI LING DEPARTMENT 
Board of Education Building 



MULTIGRAPH DEPARTMENT 
Board of Education Building 











ADDRESSOGRAPH DEPARTMENT 
Board of Education Building 



STATIONERY,{AND PRINTING STOCK ROOM 










Board of Education Building 



Page 223 













































































































































OFFICE OF WORKS MANAGING ENGINEER 
Factory Building! Number Two 



DRAFTING ROOM— WORKS DEPARTMENT 
Factory Building! Number Two 


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MECHANICAL ENGINEER, WORKS DEPARTMENT OFFICE 
Factory Building! Number Two 




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WEIGHMASTER, SHIPPING AND RECEIVING DEPARTMENT 
Factory Building! Number Two 


Page 225 































































AUTOMOBILE DESIGNING ENGINEER'S OFFICE 
Experimental Engineering Building 



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DRAFTING ROOM—ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT 
Experimental Engineering Building 




OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PRODUCTION 
Factory Building Number Two 


TRACTOR DESIGNING ENGINEER'S OFFICE 
Experimental Engineering Building 





































































SECRETARY’S OFFICE, DROP FORGE DEPARTMENT 
Drop Forg^e Office Building 


SECTION OF TIMEKEEPER’S OFFICE 
Drop Forge Office Building 


General Offices—Concluded from page 21(> 

Some idea of the remarkable growth of the company and its present enormous proportions may 
be had from the fact that at the beginning a little over a year ago three small offices in the Farmers’ State 
Bank Building furnished ample room for all purposes. The immediate and rapid expansion of the busi¬ 
ness, however, soon demanded more space, and continued to demand more from time to time until it 
now requires the equal of a six-story modern business building to accommodate its various executive and 
administrative departments, occupying, as it does, a total aggregate floor space of about 18,000 square feet. 
This figure does not include the floor space occupied by the various engineering and manufacturing 
stall’s in several of the factory buildings which would bring the total to nearly twice the amount. 

Just as this book is going to press plans are under way to locate all of the administrative offices 
in factory building No. 2 because of the rapidly expanding business of the company. New departments 
are being constantly added and the present ones enlarged. New members are being added almost 
daily to the various staff’s as the wheels of the Pan industry turn faster. 


Pan is growing bigger and faster each day. 



Fade 227 

























































OFFICE OF GENERAL MANAGER DROP FORGE DEPARTMENT 
Drop Forge Office Building 



OFFICE PRODUCTION SUPERINTENDENT DROP FORGE DEPT. 

Drop For^e Office Building 



OFFICE OF SALES MANAGER DROP FORGE DEPARTMENT 
Drop For^e Office Building 



DRAFTING ROOM DROP FORGE DEPARTMENT 
Drop For^e Office Building 























































LOOKING DOWN MAIN AISLE FACTORY BUILDING NUMBER TWO 


A well lighted, well ventilated and well planned factory building that can be easily adapted for various other manufacturing purposes and a 

type that can be extended to take care of future expansion. 


Page 22!) 



































The Above Colored Photographs Show the Residence and Grounds of S. C. Pandolfo, President of the Pan Motor Company, which adjoins Pan Town 

where Mr. Pandolfo has built over fifty homes for other officers and employes of the company 


















STREET SCENES IN PAN-TOWN 


Note the Improvements—Sidewalks, Curbs, Graded Streets, Lights, Trees, Shrubbery and Lawns. 


AMONG all the large industrial centers of the country there are but very few in which the housing 
question is not—even today—a most serious problem. In many communities it has been found 
necessary to appoint special committees and employ experts to investigate and look for a solution 
that shall make for a better town in which to live. Tenement surroundings do not go far toward mak¬ 
ing happy home circles and dissatisfied men do not produce the best results. 

In communities like Saint Cloud, which pride themselves upon the number of individually owned 
homes, a sudden influx of many new jjeople presents at once a most troubling housing problem. This 
question was not lost sight of when Mr. Pandolfo began the construction of the huge plant. There were 
no surplus houses in the town where the staff and other employees could find homes. Coincident with 
the beginning of the factory construction he at once secured a tract of land near the plant, yet far 
enough away to be free from smoke, noise and other possible discomforts. On this tract there are now 


Pag© 233 


























































STREET SCENES IN PAN-TOWN 

No Unsightly “Company Houses” Here—Every One a Modern Home and Different. 


58 homos completed, all built by capital independent of the Pan Motor Company. All of these are of 
modern type, actually handsome, and with a variety of architecture as to make this new town, “Pan- 
Town-On-The-Mississippi,’’ as it is called, added to a good old town, a thing of beauty. It has its own 
sewerage system; a white way lighting system, placed upon concrete ornamental posts, is set up; an entirely 
independent water system is provided, with pure water supplied for all purposes from deep wells. It has 
its own volunteer fire department, and police protection. Sidewalks and curb are in and the streets are 
graded. Its landscaping is under the supervision of an expert. 

An organization, in which every resident of the community is a member, meets at regular inter¬ 
vals to discuss and take action on matters that affect the welfare of the little city. A Sunday School 
has been provided and a school site has been secured nearby. Social events of various nature provide a 
fund of wholesome entertainment. 

Concluded on page 236 


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Shaded Portion Indicates Lots On Which Homes Have Already Been Built 


































































































































































































































































Lot 11—Block 2 Lot 21—Block 5 

Pan-Town—Concluded from pa^e 234 

This addition would grace the best residential districts of any city in the country. And, best of 
all, Air. Pandolfo gives any employee of the company who desires to own his own home, every facility to 
purchase the property on easy payments and long time with low interest charges. This feature alone 
wall be worth much to the enterprise, as through it there wall come a community spirit not often found 
in industrial projects. 

For the unmarried workman and for the public generally a modern hotel has been built by Air. 
Pandolfo at a cost of nearly $20,000, and is now in operation. It is w T ell appointed throughout and is under 
the supervision of experienced management, being conducted on a plan calculated to foster harmony 
and a spirit of pull together among the employees of the company wTio make it their home. 

Other features, which enter into real fundamentals, will be incorporated among the desirable advan¬ 
tages of Pan-Tow n from time to time and as rapidly as possible. A hospital to care for the sick; a com¬ 
munity house for the entertainment and club life of the hundreds of employees; an athletic field for the 
indulgence of manly sports, all will have their part in this great whole, which to the careful observer looks 
about like the last w ord in the industrial development of our times and furnishes unquestionable evidence 
of a directing intelligence that sees clearly into the future and prepares in advance for all eventualities. 


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Lot 12—Block G 



Lot 19—Block 4 



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INTERIOR VIEWS PAN-TOWN HOMES 



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THE MOTOR HOTEL 
Is Located Near the Plant 



HOTEL DINING ROOM 
Where Meals Taste Like Real Home Cooking 

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Is Modernly Equipped and Clean 


THE LOBBY 

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PEACE 


J UST as this book is going to press the civilized world is thrilled with the greatest news story of all time. 
An armistice has been signed. The war is over. Peace has come at last. 

No, peace has not come. It was not a case of coming. Peace has been bought and dearly paid 
for. Like any other prize that is worth winning, it had to be purchased at a cost. No prize ever cost 
more. Let us hope that it will be worth the price. 

As this has been the most destructive war in history, may the period we are now entering upon 
be the most constructive. 

The human race has done its worst. May it now do its best. 

Where there is famine, may there be plenty. Where there is sorrow, may there be happiness. Where 
there is hate, may there be love. 

Let us transform our war tanks into farm tractors and proceed to make the world secure in prosperity. 
Let everybody get in the ^ame. Let every dollar do its bit. 

It was necessary a little while a^o for all of us to make bullets. It is necessary now that we make hay. 
The only way that war can be finally and completely justified is through its beneficial effects. It 
is up to us to see that nothing but ^ood comes out of the inferno through which the world has just 
passed. 

If this nation will devote half the energy to industry and commerce and the proper development 
of its natural resources that it devoted to the winning of the war we will soon have Old Man Poverty 
and all his family backed up in the corner yelling for ice water. 

With the same earnestness of purpose and the same determination which the Pan Motor Company 
manifested in promptly placing its plant, its services, its all, at the disposal of the Government when 
war was declared, it now enters upon the reconstruction period. Everything it is or hopes to be is dedi¬ 
cated to the cause of peace. 

Peace, prosperity—a better and richer world—is the purpose and the prayer of Pan. 




















































































LIFTING THE VEIL OF THE FUTURE 



W HILE the Pan Motor Company has already reached a stage where it may be classed among the 
big industries of the nation, with its great modern plant units now in operation and with 
an army of 50,000 loyal boosters who have invested in its capital stock, it is really only in its 
swaddling clothes. While it has made unparalleled progress and developed unheard of speed in building 
and financing, all that has been done so far is simply of a preliminary character, preparing for and 
leading np to vastly greater eventualities. 

Given the money and the influence there is no limit to achievement, no human possibility that 
may not be successfully accomplished. This fact is well illustrated in the effective manner in which our 
country entered the European War. The United States had the money and it had the men. There could 
be only one result—the best fed and best equipped army in the world—which meant victory, success. 
There is nothing that money and influence cannot do. Nobody knows this better than the founder of 
the Pan Motor Company and his plans from the beginning had their foundation and inspiration in this 
certain definite knowledge. 

S. C. Pandolfo does not hedge himself about by limitations nor will he allow the Pan Company 
to be so restrained in its future operations. On the contrary, his original aim and object was to develop 
a world enterprise whose ramifications would necessarily extend in many directions, embracing not 
alone the manufacture of automobiles, trucks and tractors, though these are three distinct indus¬ 
tries in themselves, with their necessary adjuncts represented in the drop forge and die plants, also dis¬ 
tinct industries, hut in addition a tire plant and eventually steel mills. 

The steel business, supplying limitless opportunity for the investment of capital and being the 
most stable industry in the world, offers a fitting culmination for a project of the scope and character 
of the Pan Motor.Company and with it will come a full realization of the purposes and complete rounding 





























out of the plans of the man whose mental and physical energies brought the organization into being 
and made this comprehensive and seemingly pretentious program not only possible, hut logical and 
practical, with every stage in its development coming in its proper sequence and as the natural outgrowth 
of prior activities and successes. 

There is no metal having the commercial value of steel and none so universally used in its various 
shapes and forms. Steel comes nearer possessing actual intrinsic money value in a wider sense than 
any other commodity and is the foundation of more articles of manufacture than any other metal. Of 
course, it is generally understood that steel enters largely into the manufacture of automobiles, trucks 
and tractors and plays a major part in all die making and drop forgings. 

Imagine the wonderful advantages, therefore, of the company operating in all these various 
industries and supplying itself from its own iron mines, smelters and steel mills with this essential 
and valuable product; operating and owning its own brass, aluminum and grey iron foundries; its own 
machine shops, to he among the largest in the world; its own woodworking and body departments, second 
to none; its own sheet metal works; its own wheel factory, and eventually its own water power plant. 
This is the ultimate aim of the Pan Motor Company and it may he said right here that while it is a 
bi^ undertaking and will require vast sums of money and influential backing of the most positive and 
determined type, its day of realization is by no means remote. In five years from now this company 
hopes to be, expects to be, and should he a hundred million dollar corporation, with its several distinct 
factories operating in all the various lines mentioned above, with its products, superior in design and 
character of construction and equitably priced, supplying the markets of the world. 

What does this mean to the public? What does it mean to the company? What does it mean to 
Pan employees? 

To the public it means that the best engineering and mechanical skill, the latest machinery and 
the world’s most modern plants will supply it with the most serviceable automobile, truck and tractor, 
the best tire and other products, built and constructed under the most favorable conditions. Having 
its own mines and its own steel mills from which to draw its raw materials, with its various other 
plants, factories and departments, and producing on a mammoth scale, the actual cost of the finished 





























article will be reduced to a minimum. This reduction in the cost of production will have its natural 
sequence in a reduced selling price, which will mean a substantial saving to the ultimate consumer. 
The two tendencies of a big business of this character operating in the public’s favor are in the direction 
of a better product and a smaller cost. The higher the grade the lower the price, is a paradoxical 
expression, but when applied to the products of the ultimate Pan Motor Company its truth cannot be 
reasonably questioned. Thus the public will profit in two important ways: It will be able to buy better 
goods for less money, and, as Shakespeare said, this is “a consummation devoutly to be wished.” 

To the company it means that it will receive the profits from several individual and distinct 
industries, any one of which has practically unlimited possibilities. It is not necessary here to give figures 
and details relating to the enormous profits that have been made in the automobile business. Every 
school boy knows that it is one of the biggest money-making industries in the world. The same is 
true of the tire business; and the steel business is regarded the world over as the king of all industries. 
The truck and the tractor are of more recent origin, but both are well established, and the future agri¬ 
cultural and commercial development of the nations of the earth will demand these in constantly 
increasing numbers. As a matter of fact, it is extremely doubtful if any known industry has the future 
possibilities of either the truck or the tractor, and the company engaging in their manufacture on a 
large scale, turning out high grade and fairly priced machines, is going to reap a rich harvest for years 
to come. Is there a company in the land with greater or wider possibilities? 

To Pan employees it means that they will be on the pay roll of the bi^gest-souled corporation in 
existence, one that will take particular and especial care to provide the most delightful surroundings, 
both in the plants and in the homes. Living and working conditions will be as nearly ideal as it is 
possible to make them. The most liberal wage scale will be established and in addition thereto all 
company employees will share generously in the profits of the business, this bein^ the avowed policy of 
the founder of the enterprise and one of the many features of the project which have operated in the 
creation of such a wide and friendly public sentiment in favor of the Pan Motor Company. 

This, then, is the destiny of the Pan organization and no mental or physical energy, no human 
effort and no money will be spared in bringing the business to its final stage of development, making 
of it a world enterprise in the fullest sense, supplying a world market with those articles most necessary 





























to world progress, giving employment to thousands of contented workmen and earning handsome profits 
on all money invested. 

Of course, there are Doubting Thomases. There are those who will say it is only a dream; it 

can’t be done, just as there were those who said a year ago that what is now could never be. This 

book furnishes undeniable evidence of the mistakes of the latter; and, so, the Pan book of the future, 
when the final chapter is written, will prove the error of those who now contend that the program as 
outlined above is impractical and impossible. The doubter jumps at conclusions. He talks without 
thinking. Never having done anything worth while himself and knowing that he never will, he naturally 
doubts the ability and capacity of others. He forgets, if he ever knew, that there is nothing impossible to 
those who have the will to win. He forgets, if he ever knew, that money and influence are capable of any 
human accomplishment. He forgets, if he ever knew, that the Pan Motor Company is one of the most 
efficient organizations in the world today, that it is inspired by the highest and best motives, that it 
is in existence for the purpose of being just what it started out to he and none other and that it has 

at its head the necessary executive ability to bring it to ultimate success. 


Let those who doubt the immediate future of this company learn their lesson from its short, but 
eventful past. Let those who say it can’t be done open their eyes to substantial, material actualities; 
let them consider well what has been done and then, using the reason and the wisdom that God has 
given them, let them form just, rational and impartial conclusions as to what can be and what will 
be done through the same agencies that have operated thus far in bringing the Pan Motor Company 
to its present high state of development. What has been can be and five more years like the one just 
past, with the impetus that naturally belongs to a moving organization, growing in power with increas¬ 
ing speed, the Pan should be the identical thing it is intended to be—a leading world enterprise, with 
a heart and a soul, backed by all the money and all the influence necessary to make its presence felt 
in every corner of the earth. A great, big, good-natured giant, with unlimited human power and a sur¬ 
plus of financial strength that can never be used to the utmost; this is the Pan Motor Company of the 


future. 






























Plans, Purposes and Objects for Which the Pan Motor 

Company was Organized 

First—To design, perfect and manufacture the most practical and useful popular-priced automobile 
possible. 

Second—To design, develop and manufacture the most serviceable and common sense all around farm 
tractor that men, money and up-to-date machinery can build. 

Third—To design, to refine and to perfect in its experimental department and on the road the most 
desirable and satisfactory medium-priced truck that engineers, mechanics, men and money 
and machinery can build; and then manufacture it in bij5 quantities. 

Fourth—To build and equip and eventually have the finest, the best, the most up-to-date and the largest 
drop forge department in the world. 

Fifth—To eventually build and operate its own Rubber Tire Factory. 

Sixth—To own, within a few years, its own Iron Mines. 

Seventh—To build, own and operate, some time in the future, its own Smelters and Steel Mills. 

Eighth—To build, own and operate its own brass, aluminum and grey iron foundries, just as soon as 

possible. 

Ninth—To own and operate its own machine shop, which, it is believed when eventually completed 
and fully equipped, will be one of the largest and very best in the world. 

Tenth—To build, own and operate its own Woodworking and Body Departments, which, it is intended, 
shall be second to none. 

Eleventh—To build, own and operate its own sheet metal works. 

Twelfth—To build, own and operate its own wheel factory. 

Thirteenth—To eventually construct and own, if possible, its own water power plant. 

Fourteenth—To become, as rapidly as possible, a Giant Manufacturing Institution, which is a very 
different thing from an assembling proposition, and to make ^ood, in a big way, for those who 
might have vested interests in it. 



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THE FIRST PAN! 


The first Pan Cars made their appearance on the streets of Saint Cloud early in July 1917. They were built at Indianapolis by a firm of con¬ 
sulting engineers then employed by the Company. Every one of the original Pans are still in service. 


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THE PROMOTER 


T his is not the Stone Age. Conditions that prevailed before the flood do not prevail now. The 
modern man is not a bearded beast. Why? Because some fellow promoted the razor. 

The ox cart is a thing of the past. Why? Because the steam engine, the automobile and the 
flying machine have been promoted. 

Battering rams are not popular in modern warfare. Why? Because T. N. T. and other explosives 
are on the job. 

The world owes its deliverance from crude methods to the promoter. The promoter has brought 
us knowledge, comfort, convenience and happiness. 

The fig leaf has been superseded by the seal skin. Woven silk has taken the place of straw. Why? 
Because the promoter has been busy. 

Instead of the tallow candle we have the electric light. Why? Because some crazy individual got 
a brilliant idea and promoted it successfully. 

We know the earth is not flat. Why? Because Columbus, a s^reat promoter, proved that it is round. 
Our religion, the best on earth, is the work of the world’s greatest Promoter—Jesus. He was 
crucified. 

In spite of his magnanimous character and splendid works the promoter has been discredited, lied 
about, maligned. It is too had. But it is a human trait. The fellow that does the most good gets 
the least credit, especially in his own time and generation. 

There are exceptions. President Wilson is promoting peace and the civilized world is with him. 
Our esteemed countryman, Charles Schwab, who promoted steel so long and with such rare ability, 
but whose success made him enemies, is now promoting shipping, as only a real promoter could, with 
the unanimous approval of the people. 

Promoting is the grandest, noblest business on earth. The promoter has brought order out of 
chaos. With barbarism as his only raw material he developed civilization. He has humanized, Chris¬ 
tianized and civilized the cave man. 




























Democracy, the highest and best form of human government yet evolved, to perpetuate the prin¬ 
ciples of which this nation has just given its best blood, was originally the idea and later the achieve¬ 
ment of the promoter. 

Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of action—the right to live—we owe to the 
promoter. 

England’s Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United 
States were the promotions of oppressed peojdes. 

Moses promoted the Ten Commandments; and the Golden Rule, first in its negative form and 
later in its present, perfect, positive form, as enunciated by Jesus, stands ont as the star promotion of 
the ages. 

Fulton promoted the steam boat; Howe the sewing machine. Harvey promoted the knowledge of 
the circulation of the blood; Newton that of the law of gravity; and Darwin promoted the idea of the 
survival of the fittest. 

Edison promoted the phonograph; Wright Brothers the air boat; Marconi the wireless; and Ford 
the Tin Lizzie, successfully; the Peace Ship, otherwise. 

All the big jobs have been performed by promoters. They are, have been and will be the restless 
spirits who dare to venture into unknown fields, to risk their fortunes, their good health, their lives, if 
necessary, to open new mines, to make new discoveries, to develop new countries, to build new indus¬ 
tries, to obtain new information, to apply new ideas and to try out new plans. Through their efforts 
the race is blessed with an endless series of progressive changes, leading constantly to greater human 
comfort and fuller and better lives. 

Certainly there have been bad promoters, just as there have been bad preachers, bad teachers, bad 
husbands, bad wives and bad children. We are frank to admit that the Devil himself was some promoter 
and the archdemon of them all, Kaiser Wilhelm, is the world’s most successful promoter of murder. But 
the promoters of peace have got him bested and out of all the misery and all the crime and all the 
suffering will come a better world in which to live. More good than evil is promoted and will be promoted, 
because that is the direction in which the human race is moving. 

America was first discovered and then promoted. The United States is a promotion. Each state 
in the Union is a promotion. Every railroad in the country, every industry, every bank, every college, 
every university, every church, every Sunday school, every meat market and every grocery store is a 


























promotion. They are all here and doing business because there were those who were willing to take a chance 
and run the risk of failure. 

Where would the race be without the speculator, without the promoter? It would still be in the 
jungles and only slightly removed in countenance and ambition from its caudal prototype. 

The promoter leads; others follow. The promoter steps out into the night—into the darkness— 
and without knowing his destiny, but with a heart for any task, finds gold. He gets the news back to 
the home guards and they follow, making the trip in the daylight. It is easy to pick up a fortune 
after some industrious party has found it and pointed it out to you. 

Where would the oil industry be without the men who have the nerve to risk their money and 
their time in developing and proving undrilled and unknown territory? There wouldn’t be enough gas¬ 
oline in the country to prime a carburetor. 

Let us give more credit to the man who is game and who encourages lameness in others. Be 
game and gain. And if loss comes, be all the garner. A man may be excused for losing anything and 
everything but his head. 

The speculator, the pioneer, the exploiter, the promoter, they are the boys who have developed 
the nation’s resources, who have budded its enterprises, who have established its industries, who have 
founded its cities. 

With a brain that is active, a heart that is strong and with a body that is all energy the real 
promoter is ready for any job. He opens new roads, develops new territory, discovers new mines. Some¬ 
times he gets paid for his work. Sometimes he does not. But he keeps on going. That is the way he 
is built. He builds factories, builds cities, creates employment. He is the forerunner of population and 
prosperity, of railroads and residences, of commerce and cornfields. 

He is at the head of the procession. He points the way to new wealth and new methods. What 
he gets for his trouble may or may not be enough; it may or may not be too much; but the good he 
does and the wealth he creates for the enjoyment of his and future generations are uncalculable. 

The promoter shows the rest of the world how to make money—how to get rich. When he takes 
the risk out of a proposition by proving its worth, his critics, the conservatives, are anxious to get in 
with him and ride, or take it away from him entirely. In other words, the whole job of supporting 
the human race rests primarily on the shoulders of the promoter. Without the promoter the rest of 
us would starve, if we didn’t freeze first. 


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Don’t lie about the promoter. Don’t slander him. Don’t discourage him. He has a hard enough job 
as it is. And remember, he is feeding you, clothing you and keeping you warm. He has provided you 
with conveniences. He gave you your automobile and installed your telephone. He has been good to you, 
in spite of your attitude towards him. He is a magnanimous man and deserves magnanimous treatment. 

Besides he is busy and has other greater and even better work to do. He must not use his God- 
given talents less, but more. He must not be hindered, but helped. No man or set of men is qualified 
to stand between the promoter and his job. His work is too important, too vital. Whatever his faults, 
whatever his mistakes, he is still the world’s greatest builder. As a producer, he stands alone. He is 
in a class by himself. He is head and shoulders above all the rest. His motives may be questioned, 
as they have been, for there are those who pretend to possess an ability not yet listed among the attri¬ 
butes of men—the power to analyze the human soul. If the wide world contains a man who has this 
wonderful power he is the party that should pass on and approve the projects of the promoter. If no 
such prodigy exists, instinct and horse sense should be our guides. 

With the coming of peace the earth is going to be smaller—much smaller. And that very small¬ 
ness is going to call for bigger men—much bigger. It is going to call for men who can face in any direc¬ 
tion and see around the globe. It is going to call for business executives and trade promoters who can sit 
at their desks in their American factories and analyze commercial and industrial conditions in South 
America, Asia and Africa. Who are these men? Where are they coming from? They are the country’s 
real promoters. They are the men who are going to do the big jobs in the immediate future. They 
are at once the heart and brain of the race. They have the intelligence to meet all emergencies and 
the humanity to do justice. Their purpose will be not alone to make money—to pile up profits—but 
to serve the nation and mankind throughout the world. 

With the coming of this smaller earth and with America in possession of greater wealth and much 
richer in money, supplies and materials than any other nation on the globe, will come the real test 
of Democracy and the man who promotes his own best interests and the best interests of the United States 
is the man who will be guided in his relations with other peoples by high ideals and fair dealing. 

America is a world power and the American people as an honorable people depend upon the charac¬ 
ter, integrity and decency of the men who are to promote American world trade. 

So, let us quit trying to submarine the promoter. He is our best friend—the greatest character 
in history—and the man upon whose broad shoulders rests the future welfare of the race. 

It is our sacred duty and blessed privilege to promote the promoter. 






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A GLANCE at the reproduction of the perspective drawing 
included in the cover design will aid the reader in visual¬ 
izing the Pan plant of the future, as originally planned by Pan 
engineers to look when entirely completed. 









































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